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GENERAL DANIEL DAVIDSON BIDWELL 



HISTORY 



OF THE 



Forty-Ninth New York 
Volunteers 



COMPILED BY 

FREDERICK DAVID BIDWELL 

ALBANY, NEW YORK 



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HISTORY OF THE FORTY-NINTH REGIMENT, 
NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS 

Chapter I 

Ox July 30, 1861, at the request of the President of the United 
States, Honorable Edwin Dennison Morgan, Governor of 
the State of New York, issued his proclamation for the 
recruiting of twenty-five regiments of infantry of not more than 
one thousand men each. 

On the 31st of July the Union Defense Committee of the City of 
Buffalo consisting of the patriotic citizens of that city represented 
by Mayor Franklin A. Alberger, James Adams, Isaac Holloway and 
other prominent citizens, procured authority from the Governor of 
the State to recruit a regiment for immediate service. 

Temporary headquarters were established at James Adams and 
Company's store on Washington street, and Daniel Davidson 
Bidwell, a prominent military man of the city, was placed in charge 
of the afifairs of the new organization. Active recruiting was at once 
commenced. About August 12th, under permission of the War 
Department, the grounds and buildings at Fort Porter were occupied 
as headquarters. Barracks and other buildings were erected, tents 
put up, and the long deserted and neglected place assumed a military 
aspect, visited by many citizens and friends of volunteers already 
there and by many men coming in and voluntarily offering their 
services. 

Nine companies were recruited, principally in the following 
counties: Companies A, G. I and K in Chautauqua county; Com- 
panies B, D. E and F in Erie county, and Company H in Niagara 
county. 

By the 23d of August one company from Chautauqua county had 
arrived. Captain Plogstead had a goodly number in camp. Haines, 
Selkirk, Tillinghast, Bullymore and others were actively at work. 
Clothing had been received and issued. Drilling was commenced 
and guards mounted. Captain Heacock's company, which had been 

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2 History of the 49th Regiment 

sent to Elmira rendezvous, had returned. Captain Drake had come 
from Westfield and Moss from Lockport with their companies, and 
before the end of August much progress had been made toward 
filling the regiment. 

On the 16th of September orders were received to report at the 
Park Barracks in New York City, and on the 16th the regiment 
left Fort Porter, escorted by all the military organizations then 
existing in Erie county, one company from Chautauqua county, and 
the Union Continentals, composed of old and prominent citizens of 
Buffalo under the command of Ex-President Millard Fillmore. 
Thousands of people lined the streets. Shouts, cheers, and the sweet 
sound of children's voices singing patriotic songs greeted them as 
they passed with difficulty thru the crowded streets, and many 
were the prayers and good wishes that followed them. 

The journey to New York was over the Erie Railroad, and as the 
train was long and heavy and the rails slippery with rain, the 
regiment was on the road until the morning of the 18th. During 
the trip they were the recipients of many and cordial greetings, 
and in the city from the ferry landing to the Park Barracks (where 
the Post Office now stands) much praise was given to the command 
for its sturdy and military appearance. At this place Company C 
from Westchester county, known as the " Fremont Rifles," was 
added. 

Special Orders Number 397, Adjutant General Orders State of 
New York, September 18, 1861, accepted and numbered the regi- 
ment, the 49th New York Volunteers. On that day it was mustered 
into the United States service. The State of New York issued to it 
846 Harper's h'erry smooth bore muskets, model 1842, caliber 69. 
which had l)cen altered from Hint locks to percussion locks; 15,000 
buck and ball cartridges ; 25,000 percussion caps ; 100 common and 
18 wall tents. 

Governor Morgan, on bolialf of the State presented the regiment, 
before its departure for the scat of war, witli a national flag. The 
ladies of P>u ffalo and the Honorable William Fargo presented a 
second national flag in the spring of 1862. A regimental flag was 
presented to the 49th Battalion at Burksville Junction, Virginia, in 
April, 1865. 



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The regiment numbered nearly nine hundred men and officers, 
and was officered as follows : 

Field and Staff 
Colonel — Daniel Davidson Bidwell. 
Lieutenant Colonel — William Clendenin Alberger. 
Major — George Washington Johnson. 
Surgeon — James A. Hall. 

Assistant Surgeon — William Warren Potter. 
Adjutant — William Bullymore. 
Quartermaster — Henry D. Tillinghast. 

Company A — Recruited at Fredonia 

Captain — Henry N. Marsh. 

First Lieutenant — Phillip S. Cottle. 

Second Lieutenant — Thomas Cluny. 

Company B — Recruited at Buffalo 

Captain — John F. E. Plogstead. 
First Lieutenant — Frederic Von Gayl. 
Second Lieutenant — William Weurz. 

Company C — Recruited at Portchester 

Captain — Charles N. Palmer. 

First Lieutenant — Gilbert J. Greene. 

Second Lieutenant — William Theodore Wiggins. 

Company D — Recruited at Buffalo 

Captain — William F. Wheeler. 

First Lieutenant — George Holden Selkirk. 

Second Lieutenant — Peter A. Taylor. 

Company E — Recruited at Buffalo 

Captain — Reuben E. Heacock. 

First Lieutenant — George W. Gilman. 

Second Lieutenant — William Ellis. 

Company F — Recruited at Buffalo 

Captain — Erasmus W. Haines. 

First Lieutenant — William Bullymore. 

Second Lieutenant — Charles Howell Bidwell. 

Company G — Recruited at Westfield 

Captain — Jeremi.\h Clinton Drake. 
First Lieutenant — Phineas Stevens. 
Second Lieutenant — Justin G. Thompson. 

Company H — Recruited at Lockport 

Captain — Charles H. Moss. 

First Lieutenant — Andrew W. Brazee. 

Second Lieutenant — Henry D. Hall. 



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Company I — Recruited at Forestville 

Captain — Raselas Dickinson. 

First Lieutenant — Erastus D. Holt. 

Second Lieutenant — James A. Boyde. 

Company K — Recruited at Jamestown 

Captain — Alonzo J. Marsh. 

First Lieutenant — Andrew J. Bovven. 

Second Lieutenant — Elial Foote Carpenter. 

The 49th New York Volunteers suffered a severe and unusual 
loss in the number of its field officers killed in action : General 
Bidwell at Cedar Creek, Major Ellis at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Lieutenant Colonel Johnson at Fort Stevens, and Colonel Holt in 
the final and victorious assault at the fall of Petersburg. 

The regiment participated in fifty-four skirmishes and engage- 
ments. Its greatest losses during the war occurred at the Battle of 
Spottsylvania Court House, where it lost 45.9 per cent, of the 
number engaged ; and at the Battle of the Wilderness, where it 
lost 20.5 per cent, of the number engaged. But two regiments in 
the regular army, th.e 14th and 18th, exceeded this regiment in its 
loss of killed and died of wounds. Twenty-four of its number died 
in Andersonville and other Confederate prisons. 

In Sergeant Alexander H. McKelvx's journal, interesting 
reminiscences are noted of the recruiting for the regiment. Mr. 
McKelvy was a youth of twenty, residing in Warren county, 
Pennsylvania. " Lon " Marsh, an old river pilot of Jamestown, 
New York, came over the State line for volunteers to fill up a 
company he was then forming and made speeches at county fairs, 
where the impression on the young men caused many to enlist. 
They went to Jamestown in fine style, for Marsh sent a four-horse 
coach out for them. They at once commenced drilling in Jones' 
Hall, and began to learn the rudiments of the great game of grim 
war. 

When the coni])any left Jamestown it was escorted to the boat 
landing by the home guards and the Zouaves and an immense crowd 
of friends and si^ectators. They were given comfort bags by young 
girls at Westfield ; these bags contained many useful articles for 
sewing, mending and patching; and what made them particularly 
interesting was that lach bag contained the name and address of 



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the fair giver, with a polite request to correspond when they settled 
down to camp life. And the boys acted promptly on the polite 
request. 

The following record is taken from Fox's " Three Hundred 
Fighting Regiments " : 

49TH NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS — " SECOND BUFFALO" 

Neil's Brigade — Getty's Division — Sixth Corps 

(1) Colonel Daniel Davidson Bidwell, brevetted Brigadier General (killed). 
(2) Colonel Erastus D. Holt (killed). (3) Colonel George Holden Selkirk. 



Companies. 


KILLED AND DIED OF 

WOUNDS. 


DIED OF DISEASE, ACCI- 
DENTS, IN PRISON, ETC. 


Total 
Enroll- 




Officers. 


Men. 


Total. 


Officers. 


Men. 


Total. 


ment. 


Field and Staff 

Companv A 


4 

1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
I 
2 


10 
12 

15 
18 
17 
12 
13 

5 
17 

7 


4 
11 
13 
16 
19 
19 
13 
15 

5 
18 

8 


2 

1 

1 
1 


1 
29 
21 
12 
15 
10 
10 
25 
18 
16 
17 


3 
29 
22 
12 
15 
10 
10 
25 
19 
17 
17 


15 
121 


B . 


126 


C 


106 


D 

E. 


156 
145 


F 


117 


G. 


152 


H 


113 


I 

K 


1 
1 


139 

125 


Totals 


15 


126 


141 


5 


174 


179 


1,312 







141 killed — 10.7 per cent. 

Total of killed and wounded, 521; died in Confederate prisons (previously 
included), 24. 



Killed and 
Battles. Mortally Wounded. 

Yorktown, Virginia, April 5, 1862 . 1 
Chickahominy, Virginia, June 27, 

1862 1 

White Oak Swamp, Virginia 1 

Antietam, Maryland 7 

Fredericksburg, Virginia (1862)... 2 

Fredericksburg, Virginia (1863)... 4 
On Picket, Pennsylvania, lune 4, 

1863 .■ 1 

Fairfield, Pennsylvania 1 

Wilderness, Virginia 39 



Killed and 
Battles. Mortally Wounded. 

Spottsylvania Court House, Vir- 
ginia 52 

Cold Harbor, Virginia 5 

Fort Stevens, D. C 7 

Charlestown, West Virginia 1 

Opequon, Virginia 3 

Cedar Creek, Virginia 11 

Petersburg, Virginia 3 

Place unknown 2 



6 History of the 49th Regiment 

Present, also, at Drainesville, Williamsburg, Golding's Farm, Malvern Hill, 
Crampton's Pass, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, Sailor's Creek, 
Appomattox. 

Notes. — Organized at Buffalo, New York, September 18, 1861. The regi- 
ment arrived in Washington, September 21, 1861, and was assigned soon after 
to Stevens' (afterward Da\'idson's) Brigade, W. F. Smith's Di\nsion. In March, 
1862, this division was placed in Keyes' (Fourth) Corps and accompanied it to 
to the Peninsula; but on May 18, 1862, the division was detached and used in 
forming the Sixth Corps, in which command (Third Brigade, Second Division) 
the regiment served until the end of the war. Although the regiment partici- 
pated in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac in 1862 and 1863, its losses 
were comparativelj^ small until 1864, when it encountered some hard fighting 
and severe losses. The 49th started on Grant's Virginia campaign May 4, 1864, 
with 384 men, losing at the Wilderness, 29 killed, 54 wounded, and 6 missing; 
and at Spottsylvania Court House, 24 killed, 89 wounded, and 18 missing. 
Among the killed in these battles were ten officers. At Spottsylvania Court 
Hotise the regiment behaved with especial gallantry, its percentage of loss in 
that battle being a remarkable one. Its term of service expired September 17, 
1864, while fighting in the Shenandoah Valley, and the remnant of the regiment 
went home. The re-enlisted men and recruits with unexpired terms were left 
in the field and formed into a battalion of four companies which served thru 
the war. At Cedar Creek this battalion sustained a loss of 8 killed and 30 
wounded. The 49th suffered a severe and tmusual loss in the number of its 
field officers killed in action. Colonel Bidwell, who had been brevetted General, 
was killed at Cedar Creek; Major EUis was mortally wounded at Spottsylvania 
Court House (shot with a ramrod); Lieutenant Colonel Johnson was killed at 
Fort Stevens; and Colonel Holt fell in the final and \'ictorious assault at the 
fall of Petersburg. 



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Chapter II 

SATURDAY EVENING, SeptEiNIBer 21st, the regiment started from 
New York for the seat of war. After an all night ride of 
ninety miles, Philadelphia was reached Sunday morning at 
four o'clock, and marched to the Old Cooper Shop, where a splendid 
breakfast was served by the patriotic ladies of the Quaker City. 
Baltimore was reached at three p. m., and the regiment marched 
across the city from one depot to the other. Having in mind the 
reception given the 6th ^Massachusetts Volunteers when that regi- 
ment passed thru Baltimore in April previous, Colonel Bidwell 
ordered the men to load their muskets before leaving the cars. The 
regiment was not molested, but from the looks of the people who 
lined the streets the men felt that they were not among friends. 

At eight p. M. Washington was reached. It had been a tedious 
journey, but the weather was fine, and the greetings along the line, 
even in Maryland, were encouraging. The first night the regiment 
bivouacked at the Soldiers' Rest. In the afternoon of the 23d it 
marched to Camp Leslie on Meridian Hill and formed its first camp. 
On the 25th it had its first drill. Two days later the regiment 
marched thru Washington and crossed the Chain Bridge in a cold 
rain storm, encamping in Virginia at Fort Ethan Allen. 

It was first brigaded with the 33d and 79th New York and 47th 
Pennsylvania, as General Issac I. Stevens' Brigade of General Wil- 
liam Farrar Smith's Division. The regiment was under fire for the 
first time October 14, 1861, at Lewinsville, Virginia, where two of the 
men were wounded. It lay in " Camp Griffin," near Lewinsville. 
till March 10, 1862, when it moved in the advance toward Manassas, 
but the evacuation of that point being reported, it marched thru 
Fairfax to Cloud's Mill, near Alexandria. After a few uneventful 
days, during which moving camp, target practice, regimental and 
brigade drills occupied most of the time, it embarked, Sunday, 
March 23, 1862, at Alexandria on the " T. V. Arrowsmith " for 
Fortress ]\Ionroe. A few miles down the river the boat anchored 
for the night. Starting again at davlight it reached Fortress Monroe 



8 History of the 49th Regiment 

about seven o'clock in the evening. The men saw the " Monitor " 
("the cheese box on a raft," which had recently become famous 
for her victory over the Confederate ironclad " Merrimac"") lying 
at anchor. 

Disembarking early in the morning of March 25th, the 49th Regi- 
ment marched out to Hampton Roads, and on the 27th made a 
reconnoissance to Watts Creek, near Big Bethel, returning to New- 
port News the next day. On the 31st, its camp was shelled by the 
Confederate gunboat, " Teaser," commanded by a younger brother 
of General Davidson, the Union brigade commander. April 4th the 
49th Regiment marched, with three days' rations in haversacks, to 
Young's Mill, the Johnnies retreating before the advance. The men 
set the mill at work grinding corn and had a change in their rations. 
Proceeding early next morning, about three miles, it came upon 
Lee's Mill, on the Warwick River, where it found a fortification, 
over which floated the " stars and bars," from which a few shells 
were fired at it. A section of rifled Parrotts from Ayres" Battery 
was brought into action, and General Davidson personally sighted a 
gun which cut down the flag stafif in the fort. Turning to the gunner 
he said : " That's the way to do it ! Give them hail Columbia ! " A 
sergeant in the battery cut down the staff again afterward. The 
49th Regiment was deployed along the river, which ran thru a 
growth of small trees and underbrush, and exchanged shots with 
the enemy. Milton Lewis of Company K was killed and two men 
of Company G were wounded, but not seriously. Lewis was the 
first man of the 49th Regiment to be killed in battle. He was 
buried by his comrades that night by moonlight among the small 
pines near where he fell, wrapped in his army blanket, in a coffin 
made from hardtack boxes. 

Here commenced the siege of V'orktown, which continued until 
its evacuation on the night of Ma\- 3d. During this time the men 
were crowding up nearer and nearer to the defences, advancing at 
night and throwing up earthworks with sand bag embrasures to 
protect the Union batteries on tlie next day, until they were within 
rifle shot distance of the main defences. .Mtho the men were under 
fire daily and every night, the Union casualties were few, while 
sickness prevailed on account of the swampy land on which the 
army was camped. 



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On the morning of May 4th the sentries on Fort Hunter, directly 
in the army's front, appeared in their proper places, but quite rigid. 
With the advance of daylight it was discovered that they were but 
men of straw, clothed in the Confederate uniform. A general 
advance toward Richmond was now taken up. There were but few 
preparations to make and the men were soon in marching order. 
Crossing the river on a dam and advancing in column of fours 
toward the fort, a man near the head of the Hue struck the percus- 
sion end of a shell that had been planted in the path, with his foot, 
causing it to explode, wounding half a dozen or more. The men 
were halted and a squadron of cavalry, which did not allow any 
grass to grow under their feet, went after the rear guard of the 
enemy who had buried the infernal machines, and brought back a 
squad of them. They protested that they knew nothing of the 
matter, when General Davidson said : '' Very well ! We will march 
you at the head of the column and perhaps that will enable you to 
locate them." Their memories were suddenly refreshed and they 
placed little danger flags where a dozen or twenty shells had been 
buried, after which the army proceeded without further mishap. 

On one of the stuffed sentinels on Fort Hunter was pinned a note 
begging that the Yanks would not try to extort from him by forcible 
means any information as to the whereabouts of the Confederates, 
but to come on and the men would soon see another Manassas. 
At two o'clock the army moved forward and the advance was soon 
close to the rear guard of the enemy with which they several times 
came in contact. A number of men and horses were wounded, and 
the Union army took five pieces of artillery. After a hard march 
of nine miles the 49th Regiment went into camp for the night in a 
meadow by the roadside, within a couple of miles of Williamsburg. 
A heavv rain fell during the night, but the boys slept " the sleep of 
the righteous " and knew nothing of it until they were awakened 
in the morning to find themselves lying in several inches of water. 
Fires were soon started and the men spent the forenoon in getting 
their breakfast and drying their clothes " in place." 

At an earlv hour there was heavy artillery firing a short distance 
in the 49th Regiment's front, accompanied by a terrific rattle of 
musketry, which continued for some time, when wounded began 
to come to the rear, mostly from Hooker's division. The men of 



10 History of the 49th Regiment 

the 49th Regiment expected every minute to be ordered into the 
fight, but were held in Hne of battle until about the middle of the 
afternoon, when they were sent to support Hancock's Brigade, to 
which two regiments of Stevens' Bridgade had been added, on the 
right of the line. Major Barger says this order was hailed with 
joy, for the sounds of the terrific battle going on so near, and the 
sight of scores of wounded men streaming to the rear, while the 
men were only standing and waiting, made minutes seem like hours 
and the men's nerves were being torn to pieces. 

Marching two miles thru mud almost knee deep, the men crossed 
a mill dam and arrived in front of Fort Magruder just as the fight 
was over. A heavy rain fell all the afternoon, drenching the men 
to the skin. The 49th Regiment was on picket duty that night, on 
ground covered with dead men. It stopped raining just before 
morning and the men pitched their tents near the fort, which had 
been evacuated during the night. 

A few days later the 49th Regiment passed thru old, historic 
Williamsburg, and May 14th reached White House Landing, on 
the Pamunkey River. Here was soon established an immense base 
of supplies, the extent of which is not easily comprehended. Here 
the Sixth Corps, which was to become famous for gallant deeds and 
glorious victories, was formed, by taking Slocum's Division from 
the First Corps and Smith's Division from the Fourth Corps, which 
became the First and Second Divisions, respectively, of the Sixth 
Corps, and placed under the command of General Franklin. After 
a few days the advance toward Richmond was taken up and by 
easy marches across the peninsula the 49th Regiment arrived before 
Mechanicville on the evening of ]\Iay 23d, where the Confederates 
were in some force. In the morning the Union batteries exchanged 
a few compliments and the Third Brigade charged the town, the 
enemy retreating across the Chickahominy toward Richmond. The 
Union army then destroyed the bridge after them. Next day four 
companies of the 49th Regiment with a squadron of cavalry made 
a reconnoissance to the right, with a view of burning the Virginia 
Central Railroad bridge, which was within three miles and a half 
of Richmond, if it should be found practicable. At a point on the 
roadside, opposite the bridge, two companies were deployed as 
skinnislicM-s and advanced thru a wheat field toward it. But it 



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proved to be strongly guarded and the men were quickly discovered. 
A considerable body of cavalry started toward the Union left, and 
after exchanging a few shots with their pickets the men of the 
49th Regiment hastily retired to Mechanicville, barely escaping being 
cut off by the cavalry which came down a cross road from the 
river only a few minutes after the men had passed it. 

May 26th the 49th Regiment proceeded from Mechanicville three 
or four miles to Beaver Dam Creek, and went into camp about half 
a mile from the Chickahominy. Next day the men were on fatigue 
duty, cutting logs for corduroy roads and bridges, many of the 
latter having been washed away by the rapid rise of the Chicka- 
hominy, caused by recent heavy rains. 

The battles of Fair Oaks and Seven Pines had been fiercely 
fought, with Union victories. Gaines' Mill had also been fought, 
and lost ; the 49th Regiment taking no part in either. The men of 
the 49th Regiment were building bridges and making corduroy 
roads thru the swamp, by means of which the Fifth Corps and 
troops connected with it might join the main army on the south 
side of the Chickahominy. 

At three o'clock on the morning of June 5th the men of the 
49th Regiment were routed out to march immediately ; no time was 
given to make coffee or to get anything to eat, but the men were hur- 
ried to Dispatch Station, on the York River Railroad, thence four 
miles on the railroad track, crossing the Chickahominy, and returning 
to a point almost opposite that from which they started. Here they 
made a camp, but were hustled out of it within an hour to the picket 
line, having marched at least twenty miles, but the men thought 
there would be " something doing " and were ready for it. All 
proved to be quiet on the lines, however, and in the morning the 
m.en were relieved and went back to their last camp. Their work dur- 
ing the past week had been much of the time in the swamp where the 
water was from ankle deep to waist deep, and the surgeon insisted 
on issuing rations of whisky to every man. Some objected to tak- 
ing it on conscientious grounds and were excused, others had no 
such scruples, but Major Barger states that the flavor had been 
utterly ruined by the heavy doses of quinine that had been concealed 
in it. On the 7th they were marched to a point on Golding's Farm, 
on the bank of the river, exactly opposite Doctor Gaines' house. 



12 History of the 49th Regiment 

where they remained until June 28th. Here they made Camp 
Lincoln. 

At this time the corps of Keyes, Heintzleman, Sumner and Frank- 
lin were lined up facing the city ; their pickets within sight of the 
church spires, and often within hearing of the church bells. 

There was a lull in hostihties, and a mutual agreemiCnt that there 
should be no more firing between pickets until further notice. The 
lines were not more than thirty rods apart. Yanks and Johnnies 
were soon friendly, swapping coffee for tobacco, newspapers and 
lies half way between the lines every day. 

The camp of the 49th Regiment was behind a small creek, on the 
banks of which were trees of considerable size and underbrush 
extending back several rods on each side. A good wooden bridge 
spanned the creek, over which the pickets went to and fro between 
the camp and the lines. Under direction of General Davidson, they 
built a small fort on a high spot on the river bank, covering the 
Gaines house and surrounding country, which they named Fort 
Davidson, in honor of their brigade commander. They also dug 
a heavy rifle pit along the whole front, and made several lines of 
log breastworks behind it. All of these moves indicated that an 
attack was looked for at this point. 

One day a battery of six thirty-two pound Parrott rifles, each 
gun being hauled by eight big mules, came up in their rear. The 
men built a redoubt about seventy-five feet long and four feet high, 
four rods in advance of their rifle pit, and diagonally towards it, 
behind which the battery was placed. Trees in front which 
obstructed the range were cut down, and for an hour or two the 
big shells were rained in on the city. l>efore dark, however, the 
guns were sent to the rear as they were not calculated for close 
action, which was anticipated at any moment. Next morning the 
Confederate pickets called out : " Look out Yanks ! We're going 
to shoot to-day ! " And due heed was given to the warning. Early 
in the forenoon the men were ordered into the rille pits, and took a 
beautiful shelling from the enemy's field batteries, which, however, 
did very little harm. A line of battle then advanced on the Union 
pickets, who promptly withdrew, to form behind the redoubt built 
for the big battery the day previous, and from this they fired on the 
advancing line. As the enemy came over the bridge and thru the 



New York Volunteers 13 

creek in larger numbers, the pickets abandoned the redoubt for the 
first rifle pit, from which they continued firing. On seeing these 
men retire, the Confederates rushed up the slope yelling : " The 
Yankees are leaving their works ! " and took refuge on the outside of 
the redoubt until there was not room for another man behind it. A 
lively fire was kept up between the lines for a few minutes ; when 
two brass " twelves " of Ayres' Battery, which had been placed to 
rake the redoubt from end to end and shotted to the muzzles with 
grape and cannister, were fired, just once, and every Johnnie who 
was not shot started back whence he came as fast as possible. Many 
of them did not go far, for our boys jumped up on top of the 
rifle pits and plugged them in the back as they ran down the slope. 
Seventy men, dead and wounded lay outside of the redoubt. Among 
them was Colonel J. Q. A. Lamar of the 8th Georgia, who led the 
charge, wounded in the groin. He was well known to General 
Smith, the division commander, who came to see him when he 
learned who he was, as they had been at West Point together. 

The " Seven Days' Fight " was now^ on. General Joseph Eggleston 
Johnston had been wounded at Fair Oaks and Robert Edmund Lee 
had just been placed in command of the Confederate army of 
Virginia. He had quietly and quickly taken two-thirds of his army 
to the north side of the Chickahominy, leaving Richmond scantily 
protected, and made a terrific onslaught on Porter, who had less 
than a third of the Army of the Potomac with which to meet him, 
intending to crush him, and gain McClellan's rear, and cutting him 
ofif from his base at White House Landing. Good authorities say 
that if McClellan had taken advantage of Lee's withdrawal of so 
large a portion of his army from Richmond, to throw the main body 
of the Army of the Potomac against the small force remaining, he 
could easily have captured the city. The defences of Richmond 
were under command of General Beauregard, who was once asked 
how it was that Lee took the chances of such a move, and his 
reply was: "Our great commander knew perfectly well the 
character of the man who opposed him." 

Porter was having a hot time across the Chickahominy and the 
men on the south side of the river could not reach him, altho the 
Union batteries sent a good many shells from Fort Davidson when- 
ever sight could be obtained of the enemy. The 49th Regiment 



14 History of the 49th Regiment 

broke camp by filling haversacks and canteens and packing 
knapsacks. The tents were left standing. Most of them were 
slashed to pieces, as they were soon to fall into the hands of the 
enemy. 

The regiment reached Savage Station in the afternoon of June 
29th. This was the distributing depot for supplies brought from 
White House Landing. Piles of hardtack as big as houses and 
immense quantities of other provisions, clothing, arms and ammuni- 
tion were being burned and otherwise destroyed. At nearly dusk 
the regiment was hurried down to a piece of woods, from which 
the Union troops were retreating, and the men formed for a charge 
to drive out the Johnnies. Starting with a yell, the men of the 
49th Regiment were soon in the woods where it was so dark that 
men who were touching elbows could not see each other, and were 
constantly separated by being obliged to pass around trees and 
thru underbrush, compelling them to maintain their line by speaking 
(in a very low tone) to each other. They made their way thru 
the woods to a clearing on the other side, but the enemy kept ahead 
of them and none were in sight when they reached the open. Then 
the regiment returned by the road, to take up the march to White 
Oak Swamp. 

A train of freight cars was prepared for its last trip by being 
loaded with shells and other ammunition, and set on fire ; the throttle 
of the locomotive was opened wide, and without a man aboard, it 
was started toward White House Landing, where it was not 
expected to arrive. The high bridge over the Chickahominy had 
been blown up, and the train went down into the river with a terrific 
explosion which sent up fireworks as high as the men could see. 
The boiler was doubtless overheated and exploded on striking the 
water and the exploding shells and cartridges furnished the rest. 

In the late evening the 49th Regiment started for White Oak 
Swamp, making but slow progress, as the regiment was the rear 
guard, and there were many troops with wagon trains and batteries 
that must precede it and cross the swamp before the bridge should 
be blown up. It was nearly daylight when the bridge was destroyed 
(June 30th) and the 49th Regiment made its way up on the heights 
which overlooked the swamp, from which the ground descended 
in their rear. No enemy was in sight and the men stacked arms 



New York Volunteers 15 

and laid down behind them for a little rest. But scouts were on 
their heels, and finding they could not follow the regiment over 
the swamp, they got a battery on the heights on the opposite side 
and opened it on the sleeping soldiers. There was instant con- 
fusion, but the 49th Regiment was fomied on the lower ground 
and marched up to the stacks, taking their muskets and falling back 
in as orderly fashion as tho on a drill ground. 

Next came Malvern Hill, the last battle of the Peninsula 
campaign. The 49th Regiment was only on the fringe of it, being 
held in reserve; too much in reserve, for a review by competent 
authority shows that if the reserves had been put at once into action 
they could have gone right into Richmond. But the army's destina- 
tion was Harrison's Landing, on the James River, and a second 
opportunity within a week to have taken Richmond was lost. 

The regiment reached Harrison's Landing July 3d, having accom- 
plished a masterly change of base, by the flank, in the face of the 
enemy, with but a trifling loss. With the exception of the first day 
at Gaines' Mill, the Army of the Potomac had whipped the 
Confederates every day and ran away from them every night. The 
men were exhausted, but not discouraged, and after a few days' 
rest were " fit for anything." It was expected that another advance 
on Richmond would be made from this base. Many reconnoissances 
were made, as far as Malvern Hill and Savage Station, and the 
army was ready, but friction between General McCIellan and the 
War Departinent prevented it. On the 8th of July President Lincoln 
arrived at Harrison's Landing, and that evening, accompanied by 
his suite and General McCIellan and his large and brilliant staft", 
reviewed the Army of the Potomac by moonlight. It was a novel 
and very imposing spectacle. 

August 5th orders were received from Washington to withdraw 
the Army of the Potomac from the Peninsula, and preparations were 
rapidly made. First, the sick and wounded had to be sent away, 
and then all quartermasters, commissary and ordnance stores, of 
which there was an immense quantity, were shipped as fast as 
transportation could be furnished, to Fortress Monroe. The army 
itself had to be provisioned and made ready to march. A pontoon 
bridge, nearly half a mile long, had been thrown across the mouth 
of the Chickahominy swamp, and in the afternoon of August 16th 
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16 History of the 49th Regiment 

the 49th Regiment crossed it and passing thru Williamsburg, York- 
town and Big Bethel, reached Fortress Monroe, where it embarked 
August 21st for Alexandria, arriving there August 23d. Here the 
regiment was held for several days while the second Battle of Bull 
Run was progressing. The Army of the Potomac was turned over, 
piecemeal, to General John Pope, and McClellan was left without 
a command. On the 29th of August the 49th Regiment was hurried 
out thru Fairfax Court House and Centerville, passing east of 
Chantilly, while that battle was in progress, near enough to hear the 
guns. General Isaac I. Stevens, the 49th's first brigade commander, 
was killed here. But the regiment did not arrive early enough to 
participate in the fight. It, however, formed the rear guard of the 
army as it retreated toward Washington, thru a drenching rain on 
roads knee deep with mud. Between Centerville and Fairfax the 
roads became impassable and wagon trains and artillery took to 
the fields on either side, many wagons and guns became mired, and 
in efforts to pass them others shared their fate, while still others 
crowded up from behind imtil there was wild confusion. Darkness 
came early, adding to difficulties of the situation, and about midnight 
every one gave up trying to move and only tried to find room to 
lie down. Utter exhaustion brought sweet sleep even in these 
surroundings. The morning broke clear and the various commands 
were assembled, breakfasted, and started for Alexandria, where they 
arrived late in the evening of September 2d. 



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Chapter III 

ON September 6th the Army of the Potomac once more under 
the command of General George Brinton McClellan, started 
on the Maryland campaign. That afternoon the 49th Regi- 
ment broke camp, and crossing the Long Bridge, reached Washing- 
ton in the early evening. The inhabitants were in a state of great 
excitement, delighted to see the men, and treated them with 
unwonted hospitahty. Men, women and children thickly lined the 
streets, along which, at frequent intervals, there were large kettles 
of cofifee, pails, barrels and wash-tubs filled with ice water and 
lemonade with here and there brewed and distilled goods, which 
came out on the quiet and were as quietly slipped into pockets for 
future consideration. Sandwiches were distributed in immense 
quantities, and great variety ; from big, substantial ones made of 
coarse brown rolls with chunks of corned beef, ham and cheese, 
to thin, dainty triangles of the whitest bread with the crusts cut off 
and chicken breast and boned turkey between. Even jelly cake, 
lady-fingers and pie were dealt out lavishly and without price to the 
tired, hungry soldiers, by the fairest members of Washington's 
most aristocratic society, as well as by those in moderate and poor 
circumstance. No regular halts were made; only such as were 
unavoidable, from the crowding of artillery and wagon trains thru 
the narrow streets and over narrower bridges. The refreshments 
went " catch as catch can," but our hosts and hostesses were 
vigilant and attentive and saw that all were liberally supplied, 
often running after those who were moving on in obedience to the 
order " Forward ! " and thrusting food into the hands of those 
who could not stop to eat or drink. Some of the men were 
ungracious enough to believe that their afifection for the boys in 
blue at this time was occasioned by the proximity of Lee's army, of 
which they were in abject fear. 

Those of the regiment who went out on the picket line in the 
morning had marched more than twenty miles since nine o'clock, 
and many were getting weary, but the regiment pushed on thru 



18 History of the 49th Regiment 

Georgetown, where the citizens met the regiment in the same manner 
as at Washington, and where the tired men dropped at every 
temporary halt ; many of them being fast asleep as soon as they 
struck the pavement. It was often impossible to rouse them, and 
when the regiment halted at Tennallytown, shortly before daybreak, 
it had left most of the men, utterly exhausted, along the roadside. 
Major Barger states that he was one of four survivors in Company 
G, and other companies were no larger. But before noon nearly 
all of the tired ones had resumed their places. They were not 
stragglers, but just naturally required a little rest, after which they 
were again ready for duty. 

About four o'clock in the afternoon the regiment again took 
up the march. The Confederate army had made its way into Mary- 
land, and the Army of the Potomac was hot on its trail. The 
49th Regiment passed thru the villages of Johnstown, Barnesville 
and Urbana, with a day's march between, camping near Monocacy 
Bridge, which it crossed Saturday morning, arriving in the pretty 
little village of Jefiferson in the afternoon. It was here right on the 
heels of the enemy, who evacuated Frederick City on their approach. 
The regiment proceeded on Sunday, and late in the afternoon, after 
passing thru a dense woods, came to a clearing, on the farther side 
of which, perhaps fifty or seventy-five rods distant, was the little 
hamlet of Burkittsville, quietly nestling at the foot of South 
Mountain, whose broad sides, thickly covered with trees and shrub- 
bery already taking on their autumn coloring, and with here and 
there a stone fence across, made a picture of peace and contentment 
fit for an artist's canvas. 

But as the men came into the open their contemplation of the 
landscape was rudely interrupted by a familiar puff of white smoke 
from a point high up on the mountain to the left and front, and the 
report of a field piece, followed by the whirring of a shell which 
passed over the men and exploded in a meadow beyond. The pace 
was quickened, and the men were soon so close to the mountain as 
to be out of range, altho the firing was taken uj) by several batteries 
along the crest. 

Passing thru the little knot of houses and outbuildings constituting 
the village of Burkittsville, on a road which turned sharply to the 
right and then curved around to the left, making its winding way 



New York Volunteers 19 

over the mountain thru Crampton's Gap, the regiment found the 
enemy in considerable force ready to dispute its passage. At the 
same time was heard the opening of the fight by Slocum's Division, 
which was working up on the right side of the road, as well as the 
guns engaged at Turner's Gap, four miles away. The 49th Regi- 
ment took the fields on the left of the road, driving the scattering 
Confederates before them. It was called a " charge," but, while the 
men started with a rush, they soon encountered obstacles in the 
shape of logs, stumps and underbrush as well as places so steep that 
the men had to go around them, and several stone fences with 
strong Confederate lines behind them, making progress necessarily 
slow. Daylight was fast disappearing, and as the men climbed up 
the mountain, often taking hold of bushes to help themselves up 
the steep places, they occasionally met a rattling fire with a sheet 
of flame from the rifles of the enemy over the tops of the stone 
fences ; which was fearful to witness, altho on account of the dark- 
ness, and their being on so much lower ground, most of their bullets 
passed over the men's heads, doing no harm. 

At length the men reached the summit, gathered themselves 
together, scoured the bushes and brought in stray graybacks, estab- 
lished a picket line and rounded up their spoils, which consisted of 
two pieces of artillery, three stands of colors, seven hundred stands 
of arms, and about four hundred prisoners. The guns were taken 
by Smith's Division, with a few prisoners, a couple of Johnnies with 
their arms being brought in by Desmond Craine of Company G of the 
49th Regiment; but most of the prisoners were taken by Slocum's 
Division. The main body of the enemy retreated down the valley 
toward Sharpsburg. 

On the morning of the 15th. the 49th Regiment started to reinforce 
Colonel Miles at Harper's Ferry, about six miles away, but before 
it had made half the distance, it learned that he had been mortally 
wounded and the position surrendered with the entire garrison of 
twelve thousand men. The regiment, therefore, retraced its steps to 
its camp of the previous night. Here it remained all of the 16th, 
hearing occasional firing at various points in the valley where the 
main bodies of the two armies were sparring for positions for the 
great conflict of the morrow. 



20 History of the 49th Regiment 

Early on the morning of the 17th it became apparent that Lee was 
making a desperate attempt to turn the right of the Army of the 
Potomac, and the Sixth Corps was hurried down toward the right 
of the Une, where Sumner's and French's Divisions were hard 
pressed by Jackson, who had been assigned to command the 
Confederate left on the previous evening. The distance was about 
seven miles. The men made the last half, as much as was possible, 
on a double-quick, fording Antietam Creek where the water was 
waist deep, making it necessary for the men to hold up their 
cartridge boxes to keep their ammunition dry, and soon after filed 
in behind a narrow strip of woods near the Sharpsburg and Hagers- 
town turnpike, where there were several reserve batteries, which 
were hustled into action at various points, just as the 49th Regiment 
arrived. 

Battery A, Fourth Regular Artillery, was supporting Patrick's 
Brigade, of Doubleday's Division, which was in the immediate front, 
retreating rapidly after severe losses on ground which had been 
taken and lost five times since daybreak. As they passed thru the 
ranks of the 49th Regiment, the men learned that a number of 
their personal friends in the 21st New York Volunteers (First 
Buffalo) had been killed there only a few minutes before. Some 
of them called out, '' You will find a hot place over there, boys ! " 

Here the Division Commander, General William Farrar Smith, 
gave hurried orders to Colonel Irwin, who was in temporary com- 
mand of the Third Brigade, to drive back the advancing enemy 
and establish a line at a point where his experienced eye told him 
the men could hold their ground. 

The men were at once ordered '' By the left flank ; double quick," 
and passing thru the battery came to an open field within a few rods 
and over a fence where they met the " butternut cusses " and were 
order to " Charge l)ayonets !" They did not like the appearance of 
the front presented by the veterans of the Third Brigade, and broke 
and ran before the men of the Third Brigade struck them. The 
men were then ordered to "Commence firing!" and sent lots of 
graybacks to grass in short order on a field already thickly strewn 
with dead and wounded of both sides from the previous conflicts. 

The Third Brigade pressed forward over low ground, which 
rose to quite a ridge in front, and also on the right. Reaching the 



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crest in front, which the brigade had been ordered to take and hold 
at all hazards, there was directly on their right, perhaps twenty 
rods distant, the Dunker Church, built by a sect whose creed is 
unalterably opposed to war in any form, standing on the turnpike, 
in the edge of the woods, a silent witness to war's bloody strife. It 
had been in possession of each side several times within a few 
hours, and had been punched full of holes by shot and shell from 
both Union and Confederate guns. Just at this time it was held 
by the Confederates in large numbers. 

At this point the men of the Third Brigade lost the protection 
of the ridge, both in front and on the right, and the enemy in the 
church and the woods about it at once delivered on them a wicked 
flank fire of musketry. As the 49th Regiment advanced in this 
charge the 77th and 33d New York Volunteers, forming the right 
of the Third Brigade, were on higher ground and not protected 
in the least degree. They advanced steadily altho losing frightfully, 
and would doubtless have been annihilated had not General Smith 
seen their predicament and sent an aide to their rescue, who faced 
them by the rear rank and placed them behind the ridge, at right 
angles with the other regiments of the brigade, facing the Hagers- 
town road, which position they held while the 49th Regiment pro- 
ceeded to a point opposite the Dunker Church. 

A Confederate battery in front, at very close range, now com- 
menced shelling the men of the 49th Regiment. The men were 
ordered to lie down, which order was obeyed with alacrity. Then 
the Union batteries in the rear opened fire on the enemy, receiving 
prompt responses from the enemy. Major Barger states that the 
whirring shells and screaming shrapnel going both ways over their 
prostrate forms, reduced the most corpulent of the men to very 
thin proportions. The range was very short, and the time between 
the discharge of a gun and the bursting of the shell was less than 
a second. A slight error in punching the time in a fuse would have 
killed friends instead of foes; and while the men had the utmost 
confidence in their comrades behind the guns, they breathed more 
freely when the artillery duel was over. Following this firing, they 
expected an infantry attack. Six times the ground had been fought 
over and occupied, first by one side, then by the other, since sunrise, 
and it was now but little after noon. The Third Brigade was to 



22 History of the 49th Regiment 

hold it or die there but no further attempt was made to dislodge 
them from their position, which was farther advanced than that 
taken on any previous occasion. 

The afternoon was comparatively quiet until nearly sunset, when 
a battery of brass Napoleons was brought up near the left, which 
sent a storm of grape and cannister across the fields in the Union 
front, crashing against the stone fences and a grove of trees and 
some houses and barns just beyond. After the first round had been 
fired, the battery was so enveloped in white smoke, which rolled 
down close to the ground that neither man, gim, nor horse could 
be seen and only the fierce flame which shot out from their muzzles at 
each discharge told where the pieces stood. The firing was con- 
tinued until the guns were too hot' for further use, when they were 
sent to the rear. They had, however, cleared the front of all live 
Confederates who could get away. 

Just at dusk a picket, or advance guard, of about forty men, was 
detailed under command of Major Barger with orders to establish 
a line covering the regiment as far in advance as prudence would 
permit. The men started to march out in four ranks, around the 
right of the regiment, when they received another unexpected volley 
from the Dunker Church, showing that the Johnnies had not over- 
looked them. The men were moved back on lower ground, and 
deployed as skirmishers along the whole length of the regiment, 
and then taken forward in this formation, with much less exposure. 
It was soon so dark that all firing ceased. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment were as follows : Jonathan 
R. Button and Thomas J. Miles of Company G, and Andrew Gula 
of Company B, were killed. The wounded included Lieutenant 
Colonel William Clendenin Alberger, who was injured in the face 
by a fragment of shell. He was honorably discharged from the 
regiment for disability on December 10, 1862.. The other wounded 
were Clark Ely, Alfred E. Wilcox and Samuel J. Woodard of 
Company K ; John D. Silsby and Thomas Spaulding of Company H ; 
Albert A. Bartlett of Company A; Peter Kibler of Company E; 
Sergeant Norman R. Thompson of Company G; and Edwin A. 
Graves of Company I. Graves died of his wounds a week later 
at the Hoffman House Hospital in Maryland. 



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A truce of twenty-four hours was agreed upon for the purpose 
of burying the dead and removing and caring for the wounded. 
The Confederates utilized this time by sending their trains and 
artillery to the rear, and on the night of the 18th the whole Con- 
federate army disappeared. 

After the Battle of Antietam, Couch's Division was assigned to 
the Sixth Corps. Previous to this time the corps had been composed 
of but two divisions. From now to the end of the war it consisted 
of three divisions. On October 2d, Brigadier General Francis L. 
Vinton, formerly Colonel of the 43d New York Volunteers, was put 
put in command of the Third Brigade. While at Bakersville, Mary- 
land, October 2d, the Sixth Corps was ordered out for review by 
President Lincoln. The booming of cannon announced the approach 
of the Commander-in-Chief, who simply passed along the line of 
the divisions, acknowledging the salutations which greeted him, 
without requiring the columns to march in review. The soldiers 
manifested their appreciation by loud and repeated cheers. 

All the regiments had been thinned by deaths and sickness. Before 
the army left Harrison's Landing, Virginia, in August, efforts had 
been set on foot for filling them up. Recruiting officers had been 
detailed from every regiment to go home and obtain recruits. On 
October 8th, 1,700 recruits arrived for the Second Division, and 
the 49th Regiment received one hundred of them. A large number 
of convalescents also came from the hospitals. The advent of the 
new comers was hailed with joy by the veterans. 

Soon after midnight, October Uth, 1862, the Sixth Corps was 
ordered to move to Hagerstown, Maryland. In the midst of a heavy 
shower the march was made and Hagerstown was reached soon after 
daylight. For several weeks the army remained at Hagerstown and on 
the line of the Potomac. On the 10th of November an order came 
from President Lincoln relieving General McClellan of the command 
of the Army of the Potomac, and appointing General Ambrose 
Everett Burnside in his place. 

The 49th Regiment lost two of its best officers by resignation in 
1862. Captain Jeremiah Clinton Drake of Company G, became 
Colonel of the 112th New York Volunteers on August 14th; and 
Lieutenant Elial Foote Carpenter of Company K, became Lieutenant 
Colonel of the same regiment on September 19th. Captain Drake 



24 History of the 49th Regiment 

had been a Baptist minister in Chautauqua County at the outbreak 
of the Rebelhon, and without a particle of military knowledge, he 
raised a company and became its captain. When in the summer of 
1862 a Chautauqua County regiment was enlisted, the 112th New 
York Volunteers, he was unanimously called to its command. This 
brave man was killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor, June 1, 1864. 
Lieutenant Colonel Carpenter was a splendid type of physical man- 
hood. It is doubtful if any of the gallant defenders of our country's 
flag did their duty more faithfully, valiantly or cheerfully than 
Lieutenant Colonel Carpenter. It was at the Battle of Drewry's 
Bluff on May 16, 1864, that he received his mortal wound, from the 
effects of which he died two days later. 



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Chapter IV 

UPON TAKING COMMAND, General Burnside divided the Army of 
the Potomac into three Grand Divisions, to be known 
respectfully as the Right Grand Division, the Center Grand 
Division, and the Left Grand Division. General Sumner commanded 
the Right Grand Division, composed of the Second and Ninth Corps. 
General Hooker commanded the Center Grand Division, composed of 
the Third and Fifth Corps, and General Franklin commanded the 
Left Grand Division, composed of the First and Sixth Corps. The 
49th Regiment was thus a part of the Left Grand Division. 

General Burnside was a believer in offensive movements. If 
General McClellan was criticised for being dilatory, no such criti- 
cism could hold against his successor. On the contrary, he was 
criticised as being too rash and hasty. The Fredericksburg cam- 
paign amply justifies this criticism. He planned a sudden dash for 
Richmond, which ended in a complete failure. Making Acquia 
Creek, on the Potomac, his base of supplies, he placed the Army of 
the Potomac near Fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock, from 
whence he proposed to march on Richmond. The weather was cold, 
and the mud almost unfathomable. On December 7th several men 
of the Third Brigade died in the ambulances from cold and exposure. 
Even those who were well could hardly manage to keep warm. Few 
men in that vast army slept, and the ringing of hundreds of axes 
and the falling of trees, which were to be piled on the fires, were 
heard all night. 

At Falmouth, on the north bank of the Rappahannock opposite 
Fredericksburg, a wait of several weeks ensued, because the pon- 
toons which were to meet Burnside on his arrival there were still 
at Washington. This gave Lee abundant time to bring together 
his forces and fortify important positions. 

On the morning of the 11th of December the Left Grand 
Division, commanded by General Franklin, marched to a point 
about two miles below Fredericksburg, where pontoon bridges were 
thrown across the river. The whole army was in motion. The 



26 History of the 49th Regiment 

ground had become hardened by frost, and a Hght coating of snow 
lay upon it. The wheels no longer sunk in the mire, but artillery 
rolled easily over the frozen ground. 

The Right Grand Division, commanded by General Sumner, had 
already taken its position immediately in front of and above the 
City of Fredericksburg ; while the Center Grand Division, com- 
manded by General Hooker, had taken position just below the town. 
Sumner experienced the most difficulty in getting his bridges laid. 
In storehouses and dwellings along the bank of the river Confed- 
erate sharpshooters were concealed, who, by pouring murderous 
volleys into the midst of the pontoniers, repeatedly compelled them 
to suspend work on their bridges. Determined no longer to be 
thwarted by these concealed foes, General Burnside, who had some- 
time previously notified the civil authorities that if the houses were 
used as covers for men who were shooting Union soldiers they 
must suffer the consequences, ordered the batteries in position on 
Stafford Heights to concentrate their fire upon that portion of the 
town and destroy it. Soon after noon, the bombardment commenced. 
One hundred and seventy siege guns belched forth huge iron 
n"!issiles, and soon the lower part of the city was battered to pieces 
and on fire. 

During this tumult and conflagration, Sumner succeeded in lay- 
ing his bridges and crossing his troops. By this time both Hooker 
and Franklin had bridges across the river. South of Fredericks- 
burg upon an elevation, known as Marye's Heights, Lee had 
intrenched his army behind a long stone wall. This wall, four feet 
high, completely sheltered a portion of his troops, while they poured 
a murderous fire upon the charging columns of the Union army. 
On December 13th six desperate attacks were made against this 
impregnaljle position. The London Times' correspondent, who 
watched the battle from the heights, says : " That any mortal man 
could have carried this position, defended as it was, seems idle for 
a moment to believe." 

Sergeant McKelvy in his journal says that as Franklin had 40,000 
men in the Left Grand Division, he should have rolled up Jackson 
and routed Lee's army. Franklin claimed to have waited for Burn- 
side's orders, until it was too late to attack effectivelv ; and while 



New York Volunteers 27 

the Right Grand Division under Sumner was repeatedly thrown 
against the stone wall, the Center and Left Grand Divisions were 
comparatively idle, except a gallant charge by the Pennsylvania 
Reserves and Birney's Brigade on the extreme left, which was not 
supported, and hence the attack failed. General Vinton was 
wounded, and General Thomas H. Neill was placed in command of 
the Third Brigade. 

The part taken by the 49th Regiment in this great battle was 
unimportant. Major Fred C. Barger of Company G was wounded, 
losing his right hand by a piece of shrapnel shell. Lieutenant 
Erastus Mulkins of Company I was wounded in the hand. James 
A. Baker of Company C died January 20, 1863, at Armory Square 
Hospital, Washington, of wounds received here. 

Upon the advice of the Division commanders, General Burnside 
was persuaded to give up the struggle and on the night of Decem- 
ber 15th all of the Union army was transferred to the north side 
of the river. The 49th Regiment protected the removal of the pon- 
toons at Franklin's crossing. The army went into camp between 
Falmouth and Belle Plain, the Sixth Corps occupying a central posi- 
tion at White Oak Church, a little whitewashed meeting house, 
without bell or steeple, in the midst of a clump of white oak trees. 
The men built huts, building fire places in them, and made them- 
selves as comfortable as they could. 

Colonel Bidwell went home on leave of absence as his father, 
Benjamin Bidwell, was very ill. He died December 21, 1862. Ben- 
jamin Bidwell was the pioneer shipbuilder of BuiTalo. As his son 
was now participating in the Civil War, the father had participated 
in the W^ar of 1812, his home being burned by the British after the 
ill-fated Battle of Black Rock, December 30, 1813, in which battle 
Benjamin Bidwell served as a volunteer in the American army. 
Three generations of the family fought in America's wars ; the 
grandfather, John Bidwell, participated in the Revolutionary War, 
being present in the campaign about New^ York in 1776, and also 
in the campaign at Saratoga in 1777 at which Burgoyne surrendered. 

General Burnside was determined not to give up his attempt on 
Fredericksburg, and on January 20, 1863. an order came to march. 
During that night and the following day it rained continuously, the 



28 History of the 49th Regiment 

bottom went out of the roads, and horses could not haul artillery 
or pontoons into position. Men took the place of horses — all day 
long, working and tugging in mud above their knees ; here a hun- 
dred men pulling at a pontoon boat, there a party prying a cannon 
out of the mire with long levers, and still others laying strips of 
corduroy road. All efforts, however, proved unavailing and the 
commander reluctantly abandoned the project. Thus ended the 
celebrated " Burnside's Mud March.'' 

On January 29th, an order came from President Lincoln relieving 
Generals Burnside, Sumner and Franklin of their commands. Gen- 
eral Joseph Hooker succeeded General Burnside. On February 4th 
General Smith was succeeded by General John Sedgwick in com- 
mand of the Sixth Corps, General Smith being ordered to the 
Department of North Carolina. 

The 49th Regiment had been without a chaplain since April 27, 
1862, when John Bowman was discharged for disabihty. Now, 
after nine months, the regiment was joined by Henry Benson, who 
was enrolled at Albany, New York, February 5, 1863, and became 
the regimental chaplain. He was presented with a horse and equip- 
ment, and a church Vv^as built. 

The energy of General Hooker was soon manifested in the 
reorganization of the army. The three grand divisions were 
abolished and the corps commanders were made directly responsible 
to the general in chief. The cavalry was reorganized and put in 
efficient condition. The changes in the medical, quartermaster 
and commissary departments brought great improvements. The 
ambulance system was perfected, and every branch of service was 
given careful attention. General Hooker issued his order providing 
for corps badges to be worn on caps ; tbe Greek cross was assigned 
to the Sixth Corps, red for the First Division, white for the Second, 
and blue for the Third. The men of the 49th Regiment affixed the 
white crosses to their caps, and wore them during the remainder of 
the war. It was also borne on the battle flag of the division, and 
became a symbol of victory on many a hard fougbt field. 

During tbc winter the ground was occasionall\' covered with snow 
and battles with snow balls took place, difl^erent regiments chal- 
lenging each other. When the weather was pleasant baseball became 



New York Volunteers 29 

popular, and there were many excellent players in the Third 
Brigade. These games were watched by great crowds with intense 
interest. On April 18th, the 49th and 77th Regiments played a 
grand game on the parade ground. In April the Army of the 
Potomac was reviewed by President Lincoln. It was a most 
imposing spectacle. The president in his civilian dress and high 
hat, with his little son, " Tad," riding beside him on a pony, accom- 
panied by General Hooker and staff and escort, was welcomed by 
the thunder of artillery and cheers of enthusiastic soldiers. Riding 
along in front of the different corps the President closely scrutin- 
ized each command. Each corps then passed before him in review, 
and the ceremony was over. 

General Hooker was another energetic commander and when 
spring arrived he determined to march on Richmond, but instead 
of attacking Fredericksburg, he decided to flank Lee's army ; and 
masking this movement by a demonstration on his front, by the left 
wing, comprising the First, Third and Sixth Corps under General 
Sedgwick, the right wing was well advanced before Lee was aware 
of his peril. General Hooker, with his right wing, consisting of 
the Second, Fifth, Eleventh a:nd Twelfth Corps, reached Chancel- 
lorsville on the evening of the 30th of April, when he expected to 
see Lee, conscious of danger, fly toward Richmond. 

Lee, however, boldly took the offensive and attacked Hooker on 
the first of May, detaching Jackson with 25,000 men to steal around 
to the rear of Hooker's right, which he did, taking this part of the 
army by surprise and driving it back in confusion upon the rest of 
the line. 

Meanwhile Sedgwick had crossed the Rappahannock and occu- 
pied Fredericksburg. But the Third and then the First Corps were 
taken from him and ordered to the support of Hooker. Sedgwick 
was to push on towards Chancellorsville with the Sixth Corps, 
expecting Hooker to meet him between Chancellorsville and 
Fredericksburg. But the battle of May 2d at Chancellorsville was 
of such a desperate character that Hooker did not resume it on 
May 3d, and Lee was enabled to turn his whole army upon 
Sedgwick. 

The Sixth Corps advanced beyond Fredericksburg and found the 
enemy intrenched on Marye's Heights. This position had proved 



30 History of the 49th Regiment 

impregnable in the December campaign, when attacked by Burn- 
side. But Sedgwick now carried it by a direct assault. 

The services of the 49th Regiment at Fredericksburg were thus 
reported by General Thomas H. Neill, in command of the Third 
Brigade : 

" I have the honor to report, for the information of the General 
commanding the Second Division, that, on the night of May 2, 1863, 
in obedience to orders, I led my brigade across the pontoon bridge 
at Mansfield, on the Rappahannock, about three-fourths of a mile 
below Fredericksburg, posting two regiments, the 33d and 49th New 
York Volunteers, as pickets, in front of the enemy. At twelve 
o'clock, midnight, my brigade was ordered to march along the 
Bowling Green road toward Fredericksburg. While waiting to get 
the word, the enemy attacked the left of my picket line, held by 
the 49th New York Volunteers. The 49th repulsed them and held 
their ground." 

In the storming of Marye's Heights, on May 3d, the 49th Regi- 
ment, with the 20tli New York Volunteers, formed the right reserve 
of the first line of battle. 

General Neill's report continues as follows : " On the morning 
of the 4th of May the enemy attempted to gain our rear, when 
I led four regiments of my brigade back towards Fredericksburg 
and checked them. I must not omit to mention, on the morning of 
the 4th, a brigade of Confederates advanced to take an earthwork 
near the plank road, which was then occupied by our troops, when 
two companies of the 49th New York Volunteers and one com- 
pany of the 7th Maine V^olunteers, supported by the 49th New York 
Volunteers, in conjunction with two pieces of Lieutenant Martin's 
battery, entirely routed the whole brigade, and the three companies 
of infantry aforementioned, capturing two hundred prisoners and 
tlie colors of the 58th Virginia." 

Lieutenant Borcherdt's account of this repulse of the Confed- 
erates as given in his diary is as follows : " The Second Division 
changed front and extended its line of battle to the river, including 
Banks' Ford, six miles above the city. While making this change 
of position about ton a. m., the Fourth Brigade of Confederates 



New York Volunteers 31 

came out of the woods in two lines. By orders of Colonel Bidwell 
the fire was reserved until they were very near, when a well directed 
fire caused great confusion in their ranks and a brilliant charge by 
Companies D and I, of the 49th Regiment resulted in killing and 
wounding thirty of their number, the capture of a stand of colors 
and one hundred and six men of the 58th Virginia Regiment. The 
colors were taken by Sergeant John P. McVeane of Company D, 
who afterwards received a medal of honor from President Lincoln 
for his gallant conduct." 

Again quoting General Neill's report : 

" On the evening of the 4th of May, about five o'clock, the whole 
of Longstreet's Corps came up the Richmond road, as reinforce- 
ments, attacking my right and front, massing large numbers of his 
infantry in the ravines, which were held by their troops. After 
losing about one thousand men, I was obliged to retire, my regiments 
being unable to cope with the overwhelming numbers of the enemy, 
and fearful lest in the position I then held they would be captured 
by the enemy piercing our lines in rear, between us and Banks' 
Ford. * * * 'Pl^g stubborn resistance of my brigade at that 
time, I believe, enabled the Sixth Corps to recross the Rappa- 
hannock. * * *" 

After capturing Marye's Heights, Sedgwick and the Sixth Corps 
pushed on to Salem Church, expecting to meet Hooker's army. 
Instead they met the whole of Lee's army ; and now the Sixth Corps 
whose proud record was that it never suffered defeat, was virtually 
surrounded by the enemy, and had to fight its way out and with- 
draw to the north bank of the river. 

Quoting Sergeant Sumner A. Smith's diary : 

" The 49th Regiment was the rear guard on the night of May 4th 
and three companies of this regiment, G, I and K, came near being 
left behind. 

" After having repulsed the enemy several times we returned to 
the line, where darkness found us waiting for the order to move, 
and wondering why it did not come. We learned afterwards that 
an order had been given, at the right, to move oflf quietly, which 
was repeated along the line, until it reached an interval between 

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32 History of the 49th Regiment 

companies and those beyond had received no orders. Most of the 
regiment had gone some distance, when the absence of three com- 
panies was discovered and reported to Colonel Bidwell, who rode 
back to see for himself. It was too true. Companies G, I and K 
were missing. Colonel Bidwell was in command of the brigade at 
this time and sent one of his aides to bring them in. In a short time 
he returned and reported that the enemy had advanced and the men 
could not be found. 

" Colonel Bidwell then asked, ' Who will go and bring in these 
men?" 

" His orderly, Robert H. Johnson, familiarly known as ' Tip ' 
Johnson, knowing where they had been before dark, said he would 
find them, and was soon off in search of them. He rode far to the 
left, arriving at some logs, where he dismounted, when he heard the 
click of a musket, and a voice which he recognized as belonging to 
Gustavus Vedder of Company I called out, 'Halt, who comes 
there ?' to which ' Tip ' gladly responded, ' A friend ; don't you 
know me, Gus ?' ' Who are you anyhow ?' demanded Vedder. The 
enemy's pickets were now awake and silence was in order. 

" Johnson soon found his way to the men and whispered his 
instructions. All very gently moved back, carrying their muskets at 
a ' trail,' ready at any moment for action. The Confederate skir- 
mishers were dimly seen in the darkness marching in the same direc- 
tion as the men of the 49th Regiment, but at a respectful distance. 
When the men reached the regiment, all were happy to see them 
again, for it was their belief that they had been captured." 

Sergeant McKelvy tells in his journal of the difficulty experienced 
in getting across the Rappahannock River that night. " Our engi- 
neers tried to place a pontoon bridge over the river, but as the moon 
revealed the situation a Confederate battery above us on the river 
promptly destroyed it, but in the small hours of the morning the 
moon went down and the bridge was completed and the men crossed 
over at early dawn with the Johnnies following the ambulances and 
wagons down to the river. The entire army fell back to the old 
camps, and the second Fredericksburg campaign was over." 

On May 11th Colonel Bidwell commended and thanked his men 
on the parade ground for their good conduct in the recent battle. 



New York Volunteers 33 

The casualties were as follows : Augustus I. Durst of Company D, 
killed on JNIay 4th ; wounded, Edwin A. Cady, Lieutenant William 
DeLancey Boughton, Sergeant Charles E. Hessel, Sergeant Hiram 
P. Thompson, and Edward M. Wood of Company H ; Nathan 
Johnson, Thomas J. Kelley and Charles Roder of Company D; 
Samuel Adams of Company B ; Simon W. French of Company I, 
and John Proudfoot of Company K. Sergeant Hessel died ten days 
later at Potomac Creek Bridge, Virginia ; Simon W. French died 
of his wounds on Aiay 31st, at the Judiciary Square Hospital, Wash- 
ington ; Samuel Adams lived till December 29, 1863, when he died 
of his wounds at Palmyra, New York. 

The following members of the 49th Regiment were captured by 
the Confederates in these engagements : Elmor Fox, Charles Free- 
man, Sergeant Otis B. Hayes, John Osborn, Robert H. Taylor and 
Benjamin B. W^hite of Company H ; Charles W. Greely and James 
D. Purdy of Company G ; and Sergeant Henry H. Ingalsbee of 
Company I. In due time these men were paroled and returned to 
their companies. 



34 History of the 49th Regiment 



Chapter V 

FLUSHED WITH THE VICTORIES of Fredericksburg and Chancellors- 
ville, Lee's army began the invasion of the North in June, 
1863, with an army composed of the flower and chivalry of 
the South. He moved rapidly down the Shenandoah Valley, crossed 
the Potomac River and advanced to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 
Apparently he intended to dictate terms of peace in Philadelphia or 
New York. 

Hooker, with the Army of the Potomac, followed the Confederates 
by forced marches, passing along the east side of the Bhie Ridge and 
South Mountains. The weather was oppressively warm, and the 
Sixth Corps was the last to cross the Potomac. On June 28, 1863, at 
Frederick, Maryland, General Hooker was relieved of the command 
of the Army of the Potomac by General George Gordon Meade. 
The command had changed so often, that this change, only three 
days before the Battle of Gettysburg, excited but little comment 
among the soldiers. They were anxious to retrieve what had been 
lost at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and were as ready to 
fight under Meade as under Hooker. 

On June 29th at three a. m. the Sixth Corps left Edwards' Ferry, 
where it had crossed the Potomac River, reaching Barnestown for 
dinner. Later in the day a short rest was taken in a chestnut grove 
at Hyattstown, and a march of twenty-five miles was made before 
it halted for the night at six p. m. The men were weary and 
footsore when night at last came as a relief. Each man had carried 
five days' rations, gun, knapsack, canteen of water, and sixty rounds 
of ammunition. 

The next day it moved at five a. m. and at night halted near 
Manchester, Maryland, at least twenty miles from the left of the 
army, to protect Baltimore from an attack by the enemy. The 
inhabitants were glad to see the boys in blue and were liberal with 
their food and refreshments. During the last four days the 49th 
Regiment had covered over one hundred miles under a burning sun, 
and their hardest march was still ahead of them. 



New York Volunteers 35 

On July 1st General Buford, commanding the Union cavalry, had 
advanced north of the City of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and fallen 
in with the van of Lee's army led by General Heth. General John 
Fulton Reynolds arrived soon afterwards with the First Corps, and 
the battle began in earnest. During the first day the Confederates 
greatly outnumbered the Union forces, which were pressed back, 
General Reynolds being killed. About noon General Oliver Otis 
Howard arrived with the Eleventh Corps, and assumed command. 
Under his direction the Union forces retired to a strong position on a 
range of rocky hills near Gettysburg, of which Gulp's Hill and Little 
Round Top were the two extremes of the line, and Cemetery Hill 
was the apex. General Howard sent urgent messsages to General 
Meade, the Union commander, and to General Henry Warner 
Slocum, who with the Twelfth Corps at Two Taverns, was only 
five miles away, for help. General Slocum at once came to the 
rescue, and late in the evening General Meade arrived on the field. 

All night long the different corps kept pouring in, and Meade made 
the following distribution of his troops : The Eleventh Corps, 
under General Howard, was still to occupy Cemetery Hill, just 
opposite the town. Upon a knoll to the right of the Eleventh Corps 
was the First Corps, now under the command of General John 
Newton. And still farther, forming the extreme right of the army, 
was the Twelfth Corps, under the command of General Slocum. 
On the left of Cemetery Hill occupying the extension of the ridge 
and a prominent hill, Little Round Top, the Third Corps, under 
General Daniel Edgar Sickles, and the Second Corps, under General 
Winfield Scott Hancock, were posted. The Fifth Corps, under 
General George Sykes, was to be held in reserve until the arrival of 
the Sixth Corps, the largest corps in the army. 

The Sixth Corps marched nearly all night, July 1st, and most of 
the day of July 2d. The men could hear the firing in the distance 
and knew the battle was on. They arrived on the battlefield at 
about five p. m. of the second day, having marched from thirty-five 
to thirty-seven miles over hot, dusty roads, and were well nigh 
exhausted. Cheers and shouts of joy filled the air as Sedgwick's 
veterans came filing in. Sickles and his Third Corps had their 
desperate battle that day at Peach Orchard, and were in sore 
need of help when the Sixth Corps arrived. The corps was divided 



36 History of the 49th Regiment 

and sent to different positions to strengthen weak parts of the Hne. 
The Third Brigade, in which was the 49th Regiment, went to the 
extreme right of the army, and after marching and countermarching 
until midnight, hahed, in hne, and laid down to a well earned rest. 

The morning of July 3d dawned brightly and at once the rattle 
of musketry told of the renewal of the strife. On the right, where 
Slocum with a single division of the Twelfth Corps and the Third 
Brigade of the Second Division of the Sixth Corps held the long 
line, an attempt was made to retake the rifle pits captured from the 
Confederates the day before. The enemy charged furiously. They 
hoped to turn the Union flank and rout the army, but the small 
force replied to the desperate charge of the whole of Ewell's Corps 
with the most stubborn resistance. At length the Third Brigade 
passed far to the right of the Confederate line, and poured an 
enfilading volley into the gray coats. They, supposing that a heavy 
force had got on their flank withdrew, when the Union forces 
charging in turn, drove them with great loss from the rifle pits, 
which were held during the remainder of the engagement in spite of 
repeated efforts to dislodge the Union forces. 

For two hours just after noon a fearful cannonade that shook the 
country around was kept up. Then followed Pickett's charge against 
the center and left of the army. As the 49th Regiment was on the 
extreme right of the army it had no post of honor in repelling this 
wonderful charge. It was the culmination of the battle and when 
it failed, Lee realized that he was beaten. 

On July 5th, the Sixth Corps started in pursuit of the retreating 
enemy, overtaking Lee's rear guard at Fairfield, Pennsylvania, 
where a sharp skirmish occurred. General Sedgwick deemed the 
Confederate position, which was in a pass of the South Mountain 
range, too strong for a front assault by his corps and ordered a halt. 
On July 7th the Third Brigade reached Waynesboro at three p. m. 
where it remained a few days, the 49th Regiment doing provost 
duty for the town. On the 11th Antietam Creek was forded and 
the Brigade rejoined the Sixth Corps near Hagerstown, Maryland. 
Here the Army of the Potomac was in line of battle before the Con- 
federates for several days, and it was expected that Meade would 
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the waters of which were so swollen from the recent heavy rains, 
that a crossing was a difficult undertaking. 

However, Meade was another cautious commander, similar to 
McClellan, and he let this opportunity pass ; for on the night of the 
13th Lee succeeded in getting across the Potomac, and the Union 
soldiers were surprised on the morning of the 14th to find no 
enemy in sight. On Sunday, July 19th, the Sixth Corps crossed 
the pontoon bridge at Berlin to Virginia, the bands playing, 
" O Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." This was the same place 
where the Third Brigade had crossed the Potomac in the fall of 
1862 after the Battle of Antietam. The next day Lieutenant Colonel 
George Washington Johnson, Captain Charles H. Hickmott, Lieuten- 
ant Henry C. Valentine, and six non-commissioned officers among 
whom was Sergeant Nehemiah Sperry of Company G, Sergeant 
John P. McVeane of Company D, and several privates left camp 
for Elmira to get recruits for the regiment. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment during the Gettysburg 
campaign were as follows : Joseph Luce of Company D, John 
Proudfoot of Company K, and Bartholomew Vigala of Company I, 
wounded. Proudfoot had been wounded just two months before 
at the storming of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg. On the march 
in June, William R. Hammond of Company K, was captured by the 
enemy on the 20th at Brentville, Virginia, while the 49th Regiment 
was doing picket duty. At the engagement at Fairfield, Pennsyl- 
vania, on July 6th, Nicholas Baquet of Company E, was killed. 

During the autumn of 1863 there was much marching and counter- 
marching by the Army of the Potomac in Northern Virginia as 
Meade would first go after Lee, and Lee, by an elusive movement, 
would strike for Washington and Meade would rush back to the 
defense of the National capital. 

On September 17th, near Culpepper, Virginia, Major William 
Ellis desired to make an independent scout movement, and obtained 
the assistance of Sergeant Alexander H. McKelvy of Company K 
and Private Nicholas Wagner of Company D. As the major was 
mounted, he arrived back in camp safely, but McKelvy and Wagner, 
being on foot, were captured by the enemy. Sergeant McKelvy 
remarks in his journal for September 16th, when he was on picket 
duty, that altho he had a whole year yet to serve, it was the last 



38 History of the 49th Regiment 

time he was to perform this service in the 49th Regiment. But he 
little dreamed it at that time. 

About the middle of September, the 49th Regiment marched to 
Sulphur Springs, crossed the north fork of the Rappahannock, and, 
after a march of sixteen miles, camped within four miles of 
Culpepper. 

Early in October, the 49th Regiment advanced to Cedar Moun- 
tain, returned to Culpepper, crossed the river at Rappahannock 
Station, and followed the foe to Brandy Station ; thence returned 
and crossed the Rappahannock, marched by way of Warrenton 
Junction, Kettle Run, Bristow, Manassas Junction, crossed Bull Run 
at Blackman's Ford, and occupied Centerville, October 14th, in 
advance of Lee's army. On the 17th pursuit was resumed thru 
Chantilly, Gainesville and New Baltimore to Warrenton. 

On October 10th, Sergeant Frank Baker, of Company H, was 
captured at Cedar Mountain, Virginia. On the 13th William Harse, 
of Company K, was left sick at Bealton Station, Virginia, and 
captured. He had just joined the 49th Regiment, having been trans- 
ferred on October 1st from the 33d New York Volunteers. On the 
16th Frank P. Moss, of Company H, was captured at Chantilly, 
Virginia. 

Lieutenant Julius A. Wies, of Company B, was discharged from 
the 49th Regiment on October 18, 1863, to become Captain of 
Company F, of the Seventh Regiment, United States colored troops. 

On the 7th of November there was a general movement of the 
Army of the Potomac. The Fifth and Sixth Corps under Sedgwick 
were directed to the redoubts of the Rappahannock near the site of 
the old railroad bridge, which had been destroyed. The rest of the 
army, under General William Henry French, was to force the passage 
at Kelly's Ford, some distance below. Sedgwick's orders were " to 
push the enemy across the river before dark, if possible." 

The redoubts of the Rappahannock, were two formidable works, 
both on the left of the railroad, and connected by a chain of rifle 
pits ; a further line of rifle pits ran left from the left redoubt some 
distance along the river. Two brigades of General Jubal Anderson 
Early's Corps of Confederates held the works. The Fifth Corps 
occupied the river front below the line of the railroad. The batteries 
made but little impression. Daylight was fast disappearing. When 



New York Volunteers 39 

the 49th Regiment came within sight of the enemy's forts it double- 
quicked to within eighty rods of their Hne when it halted in a 
sunken road. 

When Sedgwick ordered an assault by the infantry, the men 
advanced at trail arms. The enemy's fire was steady, destructive 
and continuous. However, Sedgwick's men swarmed over rifle pits 
and rapidly advanced to the head of the pontoon bridges, thereby 
cutting oflf the enemy's retreat. This affair was singularly brilliant. 
More than 1,600 prisoners, eight colors, all the guns, 2,000 stand 
of small arms and the pontoon bridges were captured. Fighting 
ceased at seven p. m. 

Lieutenant Borcherdt's diary relates that the night of November 
7th was cold, and the men had no blankets. They had to keep dan- 
cing around camp fires all night to keep warm. The Army of the 
Potomac was inactive until the 26th of November when it crossed the 
Rapidan River at Germanna, Jacob's Ford and other places and 
moved in the direction of Mine Run. The weather was bitterly 
cold and the roads were difficult. 

General French with the Third Corps became engaged with the 
enemy on the 27th at Payne's Farm. French's advance was checked, 
and part of the Sixth Corps was hurried forward to his support. 
This engagement had been brought on by a blunder, because the 
Third Corps had mistaken the road and had encountered Ewell's 
Corps of Confederates. Night coming on, a further advance was 
deemed unadvisable. Meanwhile, several miles to the left, on 
broader and better roads, the other corps of the army had passed 
the Rapidan and moved out to Mine Run. 

Mine Run was a creek of considerable size, and at this time of 
year was covered with ice thick enough to support men passing 
over it. It was a sluggish stream but in times of heavy rains over- 
flowed its banks, making a marsh on each side, which was also cov- 
ered with ice. On each side were oak trees, with considerable 
brush, and a thick crop of reeds was in the marsh. The slope was 
gradual from the marsh up to the crest of the hills, just below which 
Lee's army had thrown up considerable defences, which looked for- 
midable. Realizing the dangers of an assault, the men pinned on 
their coats pieces of paper on which was written their names, regi- 



40 History of the 49th Regiment 

ment, company, and their home. Skirmishing continued all day, 
and reconnoissances were made in various directions. 

On the evening of November 28th a council of war was called, 
where it was decided that a flank movement to the left under Gen- 
eral Warren, who proposed it, should be attempted. Warren's com- 
mand moved in the night. During the next day, November 29th, 
Sedgwick, who held the Union right, discovered that the enemy's 
left flank was unprotected and reported to General Meade that a 
strong body of troops moving before morning upon the enemy's 
left, might by a sudden attack at daylight reach his flank and rear 
and double him up on Warren, who was expected to come on Lee's 
extreme right. This movement being ordered, two corps, the Fifth 
and Sixth, proceeded during the night to the position indicated, and 
were massed in the woods without having attracted the attention of 
the gray coats. Meade's orders were to open with artillery at seven 
A. M. and an hour later attack along the line with infantry. 

Warren's movements had been made upon a more circumscribed 
Hne than was intended and the result was that the Confederates 
discovered it, and sought diligently and heavily to fortify to resist 
it. Upon reaching the position sought, Warren came to the con- 
clusion that an attack upon a position so defended would be disas- 
trous, and reported so to Meade. 

Sedwick opened fire with all his batteries at seven a. m. and the 
enemy replied with spirit, but shortly an order came from General 
Meade to suspend the attack until further orders. Lieutenant Bor- 
cherdt says that all day the men of the 49th Regiment, who were 
on the extreme left, remained suffering with cold, their hunger par- 
tially satisfied with hard bread without cofi^ee. It was a day of dis- 
comfort and suffering long to be remembered. Many of the men 
who were on the picket line that day and the night before had badly 
frozen hands, ears and feet. 

December 1st an order came to retire across the Rapidan River 
and go into winter quarters at Brandy Station. Thus ended the 
Mine Run campaign, the closing military operations of the Army 
of the Potomac in 1863. 

On December 13th the 49th Regiment was called out without arms 
and Colonel Bidwell read and explained the Veterans' Enlistment 



New York Volunteers 41 

Act. Remarks were made by other officers. One hundred and 
seventy-five of the original 230 members present, re-enlisted for 
three years, or the war, and were furloughed in squads for thirty 
days. 

The 49th Regiment was ordered to fall in at two p, m. on Decem- 
ber 18th. The men formed in a hollow square with the east front 
opened. They witnessed the execution of two deserters from a 
Vermont regiment. A detachment of Company H of the 49th Regi- 
ment, which had been on provost guard duty at division headquar- 
ters, was detailed to carry out the order of execution. Sergeant 
Hiram P. Thompson of that company was in command of the 
detachment, which consisted of eleven privates. The two men were 
blindfolded and a white paper tag was placed over each of their 
hearts. It was a sad sight to see these men kneeling on their own 
coffins, to be killed by their own comrades. Lieutenant Borcherdt 
in describing this execution said that he hoped never to witness 
another. But there were so many desertions by bounty jumpers 
and conscripts that summary executions were necessary to preserve 
the morale of the army. 

The following resolutions were adopted by the Buffalo Common 
Council on February 1, 1864: 

Whereas, The Common Council of the City of Buffalo but 
recently had the pleasure of welcoming to their homes, after a long 
and arduous term of service in the field. Colonel Daniel Davidson 
Bidwell and the remaining few of his gallant regiment ; and 

Whereas, We now learn with great satisfaction that Colonel Bid- 
well and some 220 of his men have again entered the service as 
veterans. 

Colonel Bidwell has long been connected with the military of this 
city. He was selected and entrusted by the Union Defense Com- 
mittee in 1861 to recruit and organize the 49th Regiment of New 
York Volunteers ; was afterwards appointed Colonel ; was ordered 
to the field in September of that year, and with his regiment was 
assigned to Stevens' Brigade of Smith's Division of the Army of 
the Potomac, where he has for some two and a half years ren- 
dered honorable and efficient service to his country ; having on 



42 History of the 49th Regiment 

many trying occasions had command of a brigade, receiving on all 
occasions the warm approval of his superior officers. 

We deem it a pleasing duty, and at the same time an act of jus- 
tice to a brave, tried and competent officer, to give this public 
expression of our appreciation of the services of Colonel Bidwell, 
and to recommend his promotion to a higher rank in the army. 
Therefore, 

Resolved, That for the reasons set forth in the foregoing pre- 
amble, and as an act of justice to Colonel Daniel Davidson Bidwell, 
who has again entered the service of his country, we do hereby 
recommend and earnestly request the promotion of Colonel Bidwell 
to the rank of Brigadier General. 

Resolved, That the Mayor be requested to send a copy of this 
preamble and resolutions to the President of the United States, and 
to use his influence to procure the promotion of Colonel Bidwell, 
and to communicate with the authorities at Washington in such 
manner as he shall think most advisable to bring about that result. 

On March 9, 1864, Ulysses Simpson Grant was appointed Lieu- 
tenant General in command of all the forces of the United States. 
He took up his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac and 
on the 23d of March this army was reorganized into three corps. 
The First Corps was transferred to the Fifth Corps ; two divi- 
sions of the Third Corps were incorporated with the Second Corps, 
the other division of the Third Corps being transferred to the Sixth 
Corps. The corps commanders were : Second Corps, General Win- 
field Scott Hancock ; Fifth Corps, General Gouverneur Kemble 
Warren ; and the Sixth Corps, General John Sedgwick. The First 
and Third Corps thus passed out of existence. 

Horace R. Benson, of Company K, died of smallpox December 
23, 1863, while the army was at the winter quarters at Brandy Sta- 
tion, Virginia. He had enlisted in the 49th Regiment at James- 
town, New York, when but nineteen years of age. 



New York Volunteers 43 



Chapter VI 

ON May 4, 1864, the reveille was sounded at 2.30 a. m. and at 
4.30 A. M. the Sixth Corps moved, taking the road to Ger- 
manna Ford, a distance of sixteen miles. The whole army 
was in motion ; Grant trying- to go swiftly by Lee's flank under 
cover of the dense woods of The Wilderness, and plant himself 
between the Confederate army and Richmond. But the vigilant 
Lee discovered the movement and boldly attacked the Army of the 
Potomac on the 5th. 

The Sixth Corps occupied the extreme right of the Union Line, 
the Fifth Corps, the center, while the Second Corps was some dis- 
tance away at Chancellorsville. Between the Fifth and Sixth Corps 
was an unoccupied space, which was a point of vital importance to 
the Union line. Thither General Getty with the First, Second and 
Fourth Brigades of the Sixth Corps was sent to hold the ground 
till Hancock should arrive from Chancellorsville with the Second 
Corps. Colonel Bidwell was now in command of the Third Bri- 
gade of the Second Division of the Sixth Corps. 

The woods thru which the Union forces were obliged to move 
was a thick growth of oak and walnut, densely filled with a smaller 
growth of pines and brushwood. In many places so thickly was 
this undergrowth interwoven among the large trees, that one could 
not see five yards in front of the line. The thicket was so close 
as to make it impossible for artillery or cavalry, and indeed, infantry 
found it extremely difficult to advance. 

The Fifth Corps, under Warren, was already fighting when the 
Sixth Corps struck the Confederate skirmishers, who steadily fell 
back, disputing the ground. As the Sixth Corps advanced it would 
suddenly come upon a line of gray coats, lying upon the ground, 
covered with dried leaves, and concealed by underbrush, when the 
Confederates would rise, deliver a murderous fire, and retire. Com- 
panies D and G of the 49th Regiment were deployed as skirmishers. 
The enemy's skirmishers were continually driven for a mile and a 
half until two p. m., when they stubbornly held the ridge. The 49th 



44 History of the 49th Regiment 

Regiment charged and succeeded in driving the enemy, securing a 
good position near the main Hne of battle. 

The Confederates now charged, making a desperate effort to turn 
the Union flank, but without avail. Again and again their columns 
rushed with great fury upon the Union lines, without being able 
to move them until, at four p. m., the extreme right, being out of 
ammunition, was forced to retire. The 49th Regiment had to con- 
form to the movement by swinging the men to the rear. The regi- 
ment was relieved at seven p. m. by the 61st Pennsylvania. Colonel 
Bidwell then formed the 49th Regiment on the second line. The 
firing ceased after nine p. m., altho straggling shots were fired all 
night. No blankets were spread, but each man sat with musket in 
hand during the wearisome hours, prepared for an onset by the 
enemy. 

The battle was opened at daylight by a fierce charge by the Con- 
federates on the Sixth Corps, and soon it raged along the whole 
line. At five a. m. a battery opened on the 49th Regiment, doing 
terrible execution with shell and solid shot. The loss was so great 
that Colonel Bidwell ordered the regiment to double quick to the 
front about one hundred feet, to get out of their line of fire, and 
then to lie down upon the ground. At four p. m. orders came to 
retire some two hundred yards, to some light earthworks, which 
had been thrown up by the Third Heavy Artillery. 

On the extreme right of the Union line was the Third Division 
of the Sixth Corps. This division had but a few days before joined 
the Sixth Corps and was composed mostly of new troops who had 
never before faced an enemy. At their left was the First Division 
and joining the left of this division was the Third Brigade of the 
Second Division, commanded by Colonel Bidwell. Towards even- 
ing General Richard Stoddert Ewell of the Confederates ordered 
a movement against the Union right wing. These green men were 
busy building breastworks when they were struck on the flank, and, 
seized with consternation, fled in confusion without attempting 
resistance. Generals Seymour and Shaler and six hundred men 
were captured by the enemy. The First Division fell back, but not 
in the disorder and confusion of the Third Division. 

The Third Brigade held the enemy in check until it received a 
front, flank and rear fire, which made it especially uncomfortable 



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for the boys in blue ; still they held on, jumping from one side of 
the rifle pits to the other, until General Sedgwick appeared along 
the rear about eight p. m. and ordered Colonel Bidwell to clear the 
plank road and woods in the rear. Colonel Bidwell gave the order 
and with a yell the boys charged and cleared the woods. 

The right wing, if not the whole army, had been in serious dan- 
ger. General Sedgwick, in reporting Colonel Bidwell's conduct 
described it in flattering terms as follows : " His was the form that 
sat among the bullets upon his horse like a man of iron, coolly 
directing the movements which repulsed the enemy, gave us back 
the field and saved the whole Army of the Potomac from disaster." 
Had Sedgwick lived, Colonel Bidwell would probably have been 
promoted to brigadier general at that time. 

At midnight the Sixth Corps fell back upon the plank road to the 
vicinity of the old gold mine mill, where the Union hospitals had 
been. Intrenchments were thrown up and the position was held 
without much annoyance for the next two days. 

The two days of fighting had told fearfully upon the Union ranks. 
Those killed in the 49th Regiment were as follows : On the 5th, 
James E. Counradt, Peter Pleinz and Sergeant John P. McVeane 
of Company D ; Jerry G. Gorham and Philip Wadding of Com- 
pany I ; Jacob Mueller of Company B ; Captain William Theodore 
Wiggins of Company C ; and James S. Lyon of Company G. Only 
a year previous Sergeant John P. McVeane had received a medal 
of honor from President Lincoln for his gallant conduct at Marye's 
Heights, Fredericksburg, when he took the colors of the 58th Vir- 
ginia. Now he was cold in death. 

On the 6th the killed were: Captain John F. E. Plogstead, 
Joseph Klein and Christopher Wilken of Company B ; John Boast, 
Sergeant Henry C. Valentine and Captain Charles H. Hickmott of 
Company I ; Lieutenant Reuben M. Preston, John F. Reinard and 
Warren A. Ward of Company K ; Charles Fredenburg and Robert 
Wilson of Company C ; Hugh A. Calderwood of Company A ; 
Alonzo Denmark of Company F; and Weizner Voorhees of Com- 
pany H. 

Captain Plogstead had recruited Company B at Buflfalo, New 
York, from among the loyal Germans of the Queen City of the 



46 History of the 49th Regiment 

Lakes who were willing to give their lives for the preservation of 
the Union. Many of them had seen military service in the father-, 
land, but they were now fighting for their adopted country, the 
glorious American Republic. Captain Plogstead was struck by a 
ten-pound cannon ball at six a. m., which took off his left leg and 
shattered his right arm and right leg. Lieutenant Borcherdt states 
that he would never forget the death look on his face when he gave 
him his last message for his wife. He died at six- thirty a. m. 

The wounded were : Wesley B. Steele of Company H on the 
4th, who died twelve days later at Potomac Creek Bridge, Vir- 
ginia. On the 5th, Ira Dutton, Alonzo D. Harris, Thomas A. 
Jones, Sergeant Norman R. Thompson, Charles Truax, Gustavus 
Vedder and James Wells of Company G; Sergeant Joseph Coun- 
radt, William H. Hetzel, John G. Nichols, Peter Simon and 
Charles L Wilson of Company I ; Hugh Hogan, Rudolph MuUer 
and Thomas Uttley of Company D ; John Canning and Joseph C. 
Churchwell of Company C ; William H. Lewis of Company A, 
and Frank Moser of Company B. 

Sergeant Norman R. Thompson had been wounded in 1862 at 
the Battle of Antietam, and now, eighteen months later, he suf- 
fered another wound in defence of his country. 

The wounded on the 6th were : William Greenwood, Albert C. 
Miller, Arthur Newman, Albert A. Plattner, Orlin Pratt, and 
Myron Turner of Company A ; Edward Borcherdt, Adam Brann, 
John Bruner, Christopher Funke, Christian Hoffman and Francis 
Neumann of Company B ; James F. Devine, Eugene Duryee, Adam 
Foley, Freeman Miller, James M. Sherman and James H. Smal- 
dridge of Company G ; Captain Hiram N. Smith, Edson Farr, 
Albert Hemingway, Pliny B. Laird, Augustus Moore and Addis 
J. Quaintance of Company K ; Johnson Clearwater, Joseph Cous- 
land, James Nugent and Alexander Selle of Company F ; James 
Allen, John E. Mylacraine and Thomas W. Roach of Company D ; 
Charles N. Boorn, Andrew Schram and Newton F. Tenney of 
Company I ; and James Banker, George H. King and Ferris Pal- 
mer of Company C. 

The wounded on the 8th were : Michael Weingertner of Com- 
pany B and Barnard Corby of Company I ; and on the 9th, William 



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Payton of Company H. Adam Foley, who was wounded on the 
6th, died two days later. Eight men were captured by the enemy 
during the Wilderness engagement, namely: Carl Knop and 
Charles Miller of Company B ; Nathan Johnson and Jarvie C. 
Lincoln of Company D ; Edwin Bacon of Company E ; James H. 
Griswold of Company H; William O. Witter of Company I, and 
Warren J. Pratt of Company K. Carl Knop and Charles Miller 
were wounded in the engagement on the 6th and unable to make 
their escape from the enemy. Both Carl Knop and William O. 
Witter died in Andersonville Prison; the former on September 15, 
1864 (his grave is Number 8868), and the latter on December 5, 1864 
(his grave is Number 12,227). 

The author of " Three Years in the Sixth Corps " speaks of the 
death of Captain Hickmott as follows : " Surely death loves a 
shining mark, and with what terrible precision had he chosen his 
victims. Hickmott's bright eye was glazed in death. His gayety 
was hushed forever. We remembered now his hearty laugh, his 
friendly words and his purity of character, and knew that they 
were ours only in memory." 

By this time General Grant, finding the Confederate position too 
strong to force in front, determined to start one of his flank move- 
ments, for which afterwards he was so famous. The Fifth and 
Sixth Corps were withdrawn with secrecy from the line held by 
them, and falling into the rear of the army, marched rapidly from 
the right toward Spottsylvania Court House. The Sixth Corps took 
the Chancellorsville road and at daylight reached the old battle- 
field where Hooker battled with Lee so unsuccessfully but a year 
before. The Fifth Corps took a more direct road to Spottsylvania 
Court House, and marched rapidly, reaching Piney Branch Church, 
a little hamlet in the midst of the woods a few miles from Spottsyl- 
vania Court House, at nine o'clock in the morning. These two 
corps were soon followed by the Second and Ninth Corps, and the 
Wilderness field was left entirely in the hands of the enemy. 

The weather was very warm and the roads very dusty. Some 
of the men of the 49th Regiment came near giving out, but fortu- 
nately in the afternoon a halt was ordered and after partaking of 
strong cofifee and hard tack, the men were refreshed. Lieutenant 
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48 History of the 49th Regiment 

Borcherdt states that it was the fifth night and day with hardly 
four hours sleep, and he wondered how long it was to con- 
tinue. At three p. m. the 49th Regiment was sent to the left to 
support the First Division of the Fifth Corps. Here they were in 
the third line of battle. 

It was soon evident that Lee, anticipating Grant's strategy, had 
set about to thwart it. As soon as the Union troops were withdrawn 
from the Wilderness, Lee had hastened Ewell's Corps and a part 
of Longstreet's by an inner road to Spottsylvania Court House, and 
these troops were now in position confronting the Union line. On 
the extreme right was Hancock's Second Corps, then Warren's 
yifth Corps, then Sedgwick's Sixth Corps, and on the extreme left 
of the Union line, Burnside with his Ninth Corps. The Ninth 
Corps had but recently been attached to the Army of the Potomac, 
having previously been in General Butler's command on the 
Peninsula. 

There was little fighting on Monday, May 9th; but it was a sad 
day for the Sixth Corps. Its commander, General John Sedgwick, 
was killed by a bullet from a Confederate sharpshooter. The com- 
mand now devolved upon General Horatio Gates Wright, who 
retained it until its disbandment in 1865. 

On Tuesday, the 10th, the 49th Regiment was in line of battle at 
three a. m. Two hours later the men were given their breakfast. 
At seven a. m. it was ordered to support the 4th Vermont Volun- 
teers on the skirmish line in front. At nine a. m. the enemy 
charged in force and the Vermont boys kept them in check until 
ten A. M., when their ammunition gave out and they were pressed 
back by the charging Confederates. Colonel Bidwell then deployed 
the 49th Regiment, which came to the relief of the 4th Vermont 
with a yell. Lieutenant Borcherdt states that they made noise 
enough for a heavy line of battle. It proved effective, for the 
enemy turned and the 49th Regiment captured their rifle pits. 

Colonel Bidwell states in his official report that : " On the morn- 
ing of the 10th the 49th New York Volunteers was sent forward, 
and charged the outer line of the enemy, and captured it with a 
number of prisoners." 



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During the rest of the day there was a lull in the battle on the 
left, the contest changing- to the right, where the Second and Fifth 
Corps alternately charged the enemy, and the enemy charged their 
position. Thus the tide of battle along the right of line rolled to 
fro, while the din of musketry and artillery rose and swelled as the 
storm grew fiercer. 

At six p. M. the Sixth Corps was again called into action, when 
it was to make one of the most notable charges on record. Colonel 
Upton, commanding the Second Brigade of the First Division of the 
Sixth Corps, was directed to take twelve picked regiments from 
the corps and lead them in a forlorn hope against the right center 
of Lee's line. Four companies of the 49th Regiment were placed 
on the left of the charging line. 

The men assembled on the open space in front of the Union 
works, threw themselves upon the ground. All orders were given 
in suppressed tones, as the Confederates were but a hundred yards 
distant, in the open field, and the minnies of their skirmishers were 
whistling among the trees and brushwood. At six-thirty the sig- 
nal was given, and the men ran forv/ard with a yell, the left had 
to swing to the rear as they were exposed to a severe flank fire, 
but the balance of the line cleared the first and second rifle pits. 
No supports came in time to assist them, and they returned, bring- 
ing 1,700 prisoners. However, the Union loss was very severe in 
killed and wounded. 

Lieutenant Borcherdt in describing this charge says that if the 
men had waited ten minutes longer. Hill's Corps of Confederates 
would have been down upon them, as they were intending to 
charge the Union lines at about the same time, which accounted 
for the stubborn resistance. 

The noise of battle gradually died away as night threw her man- 
tle over the fearful scene, and both armies were glad of a respite. 
The picket line was re-established and Lieutenant Borcherdt, who 
was on picket duty, says that the moaning of the wounded was ter- 
rible, as no relief could be given them. 

The next day passed in making new arrangements. Skirmishing 
was kept up along the line, but no general engagement was brought 
on. The 49th Regiment was in line of battle at four a. m., remain- 



50 History of the 49th Regiment 

ing in rifle pits during the day. A drizzling rain commenced at one 
p. M., which continued during the afternoon and night. The men 
were far from comfortable. At seven p. m. they left the works 
and formed in line of battle five hundred yards to the rear. On this 
line the whole Sixth Corps formed. 

During the night of May 11th, General Hancock with the Sec- 
ond Corps, silently withdrew from the position it had occupied on 
the right of the line, and marching in the rear of the army took 
a position between the Sixth and Ninth Corps, which had not 
before been occupied. With great caution and silence, prepara- 
tions were made for a desperate assault upon the line facing this 
position, which here made a sharp angle, that was to go down in his- 
tory as the " Bloody Angle." It was hoped by seizing this angle to 
turn the right flank of Lee's army. But the contest for its posses- 
sion was to cost the lives of thousands of brave men. Between the 
new position taken by the Second Corps and the Confederate works, 
the ground was covered with pines and underbrush, and as it 
neared the Confederate defences ascended to a considerable height. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment during the engagement on 
the 10th of May were as follows : Killed, Mortimer Herrick, Pat- 
rick Murphy and Sergeant John H. Richards of Company F ; John 
O'Neill of Company A, and John Grisley of Company I. 

Wounded, Oscar S. Kimball, Martin Robbins, Joseph E. Rod- 
gers, John F. Smith and Hiram Waterman of Company K ; W^il- 
liam Doolittle, Walter Gibbs, Luther R. Haase and Franklin B. 
Parker of Company A ; Herman Keesler, Charles Nitzschman and 
Gabriel Ortobein of Company B ; Thomas Kerigan, Francis H. Hart 
and Elisha B. Sarles of Company C ; Michael Clark, Marcellus E. 
Hazen and John T. Johnson of Company D ; John Fraemiller, 
Emil Gauchet and Timothy Howard of Company E ; Charles F. 
Hildebrand and Frederick Schultz of Company F, and Barnett Gee- 
Ian and Hiram Sorl)cr of Company G. 

William Doolittle died of his wounds six days later, and Fred- 
erick Schultz died on May 21st at Carver Hospital, Washington, 
D. C. 

Wallace Tiflfany of Company F, and Samuel L. Pratt of Com- 
pany K, who was wounded, were captured. Lieutenant Borcherdt 



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states that Lieutenant John C. White of Company D was either 
killed or captured in the charge of the forlorn hope on the evening 
of the 11th. He was absent at the muster out of the regiment in 
1865, and his may be one of the unknown graves upon this battle- 
field. 

At two A. M. on the eventful day of May 12th the Second Corps 
charged the Confederate works at the " Bloody Angle." As the 
column neared the rifle pits it met a storm of bullets, but charging 
impetuously up the hill and over the works, the enemy, surprised 
and overpowered, gave way, those who could do so escaping to 
the second line, in the rear, altho thousands were obliged to sur- 
render on the spot, so complete had been the surprise. The vic- 
torious column now pushed on toward the second line of works, 
but here, the enemy fully prepared for the attack, made a much 
more stubborn resistance. 

The battle now raged with the greatest fury. The Sixth Corps 
was withdrawn from its position, and, marching about two miles 
along the rear of the line, joined with the Second Corps in the 
attack. The corps arrived on the scene at seven a. m. and received 
orders to charge thru the dense woods. Bullets, canister and shell 
came thicker as the men advanced. It was warm work and many 
were falling. The works that had been taken by the Second Corps, 
were now occupied by the Sixth Corps, and the enemy made the 
most desperate efforts to retake them. 

The Confederates formed their troops in heavy columns and 
hurled them against the Union line with tremendous force. The 
First Division of the Sixth Corps held the center of the line at the 
" Bloody Angle." This was the key to the whole position. The 
Union forces held the Confederate works from the left as far as 
the angle, and the gray coats still held the rest of the line. Who- 
ever could hold the angle would be the victors ; for with the angle, 
either party could possess themselves of the whole line of works. 
Hence the desperate efforts to drive the Union forces from this 
position. The First Division being unable to maintain the position 
alone, the Second Divison was sent to its aid. 

As the boys of the Second Division, of which the 49th Regiment 
was a part, took their places in the front, the battle became a hand 



52 History of the 49th Regiment 

to hand combat. A breastwork of logs separated the combatants. 
Men of both sides reached over this partition and discharged their 
muskets in each other's faces. Finally they began to use their mus- 
kets as clubs and then rails were used. The men were willing thus 
to fight from behind breastworks ; to rise up and charge an enemy 
so near at hand and so strong in numbers required unusual bravery. 

Yet they did charge, and it was in one of these charges that 
Major William Ellis of the 49th Regiment was shot with a ramrod 
thru the arm and in the side, from the effects of which he afterwards 
died. The trees in front of the position held by the Sixth Corps 
during this remarkable struggle were literally cut to pieces by bul- 
lets. Lieutenant Borcherdt states that the 49th Regiment fought 
from seven a. m. to five p. m., most of the time in close contact 
with the Confederates, not over ten feet from them. The narrow 
limits of the angle made it impossible to get more than a limited 
number into action at once. Toward dusk preparations were made 
to relieve the 49th Regiment. By this time the men were nearly 
exhausted, and had fired three to four hundred rounds of ammuni- 
tion per man. 

On the 13th the 49th Regiment buried its dead. They were laid 
side by side in blankets. Enclosed in the blanket was the full name 
and rank of each one and at the head of each grave was placed a 
cracker box board with their names in large letters, so that their 
friends could easily identify them. It was ten a. m. when with a 
silent prayer, they were laid at rest. Near the salient was a tree 
more than a foot in thickness, literally chopped ofif by musket balls. 
The stump of this tree can be seen in the National Museum at 
Washington. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment on the 12th of May were as 
follows : Killed, Gilbert D. Harris, James McGorey, Elijah H. 
Shippee, Thomas Orr, Captain Seward Harmon Terry and Lieu- 
tenant Mortimer La Verne Tyler of Company G ; Matthias Berndt 
and Lieutenant Herman Haase of Company B ; Robert Merrill and 
William H. Nichols of Company D ; Sergeant Philip S. Moriarty 
and George Partridge of Company E; William Cook and Julius 
Goldschmidt of Company F; Henry Dayton of Company C; Tim- 
othy O'Regan of Company L and Daniel Wilcox of Company K. 



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Lieutenant Borcherdt states that Adjutant Haase, who was killed 
here, received thirty-two bullets in his body. The battle flag of the 
49th Regiment disappeared and for several hours was buried under 
six dead men. 

On the 18th of Alay Captain Reuben E. Hfeacock of Company E 
was killed. His death was peculiarly sad. The 49th Regiment 
returned to the position held by them on the 12th and was in the 
first line only a hundred yards from the Confederate line and in 
plain view. Captain Heacock, being wounded, stretcher bearers 
at once started to the rear with him, but they had gone scarcely 
thirty paces when a shell burst directly under him, killing him and 
also the stretcher bearers, who were carrying him. 

The wounded on the 12th of May were as follows: Major Wil- 
liam Ellis, who died of his wounds August 3, 1864, in camp at 
Monocacy Creek, Maryland ; Thomas Apthorp, John Bego, Robert 
P. Benson, Captain Erastus D. Holt, Lafayette Hunting, Henry H. 
Ingalsbee and Sergeant Henry Rogers of Company I ; Thomas 
Brooks, Henry W. Howard, Andrew J. Matthews, Samuel W. 
Pearce, Charles Shaver and Bradford Slater of Company K ; John 
Arbor, Ferdinand Benzinger, Aaron C. Fisher, Jacob Herman and 
Julius Smith of Company E ; Hamer Dawson, Henry Handy, Nor- 
man Reynolds and George Voltze of Company A ; Christian Bode- 
man, Frederick Forster, Jacob Rider and Daniel Schneider of Com- 
pany B ; Edgar Ferris, Sergeant Josephus H. Finch, Lawrence 
MoHn and William H. Williams of Company C ; John G. Fox, Cap- 
tain George Holden Selkirk, Albert V. Sherman and John Thomas 
of Company D ; Frank Beehler and Andrew H. Keele of Company 
F; and Rufus R. Wait of Company H. On the 18th William S. 
Hudson, Junior, of Company C, was wounded. 

Sergeant Henry Rogers died of his wounds May 21st at Spottsyl- 
vania Court House ; Samuel W. Pearce died May 28th at Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; Lafayette Hunting died June 3d ; Hamer Dawson 
died June 16th and Thomas Apthorp died June 21st at General 
Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia. 

The captured were as follows : Thomas Barney, James Cady, 
William W. Conley, Desmond Craine, Albert Ferry, Lewis Han- 
chett, Dayton R. Leland, Patrick McGinn and Henry Vanderhorst 



54 History of the 49th Regiment 

of Company G ; Jonas F. Conger, Nathan S. Horton, Matthew 
Keers and Charles Leroy of Company A ; Charles Gott, Benjamin 
T. Kellett, William J. Nolan and Sergeant Henry C. Orr of Com- 
pany D; John Dougherty, John Hall and George P. Hoyt of Com- 
pany C ; Jacob Quatlander of Company E ; John F. Haas of Com- 
pany F; and Patrick Cooney of Company I. 

Three of this number had been wounded, namely : James Cady, 
Charles Gott and Dayton R. Leland. Two were prisoners of war 
at the muster out of the regiment in 1865, namely : Thomas Bar- 
ney and Jacob Quatlander, while five died in Andersonville 
Prison, namely : Jonas F. Conger, died September 16, 1864, his 
grave is number 8919; Albert Ferry, died July 22, 1864; Charles 
Gott, died February 7, 1865, his grave is number 12,604 ; John F. 
Haas, died November 10. 1864, his grave is Number 11,947, and 
Matthew Keers, who died August 31, 1864. 

In 1902 the surviving veterans of the 49th Regiment purchased 
a plot of ground within a few feet of the " Bloody Angle " from 
E. L. Landram, and at an expense of over $500 erected a granite 
monument on it to commemorate the heroic deeds of the regiment 
on that eventful day, May 12, 1864. 



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Chapter VII 

REPORT OF GENERAL DANIEL DAVIDSON BIDWELL. 
UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS, COMMANDING THIRD 
BRIGADE 

Headquarters Third Brigade, 

Second Division, Sixth Corps, 
August 20, 1864. 



S 



IR. — In compliance with orders, I have the honor to make the 
following report of the operations since May 4, 1864 : 

I. 



On the morning of the 5th of ]May General Sedgwick, finding the 
enemy were in force on a road leading from Robertson's Tavern 
into the Germanna plank road, ordered this brigade deployed and 
advanced on that road. We drove the enemy for about two miles, 
when we came on an intrenched line supported by artillery. Shortly 
after we had arrived at this point the enemy advanced a brigade, 
charging our extreme right regiment, but they were repulsed by 
the 49th New York Volunteers and 7th Maine, we taking a number 
of prisoners and cutting off one of their regiments, which was cap- 
tured by the 5th Wisconsin A'olunteers. Later in the day we made 
a vigorous attempt to advance our lines, but owing to the strength 
of the enemy's position failed to accomplish the object. 

At 4.30 A. M. on the morning of the 6th we were again ordered 
to advance and dislodge them, if possible. During the night our 
line had been strengthened by a portion of the Jersey brigade, and 
at the appointed hour we made a vigorous assault, but the enemy 
having during the night strengthened their position, combined with 
the natural obstacles in our front, of a marsh covered with a heavy 
growth of thorn bushes, caused us to retire with a heavy loss to 
the position occupied during the night. About two hours later we 
were again ordered to advance with the whole line, but could not 



56 History of the 49th Regiment 

gain any ground, when an order came to intrench where we were. 
About half an hour before dark the enemy made a desperate attack 
on the right of the general line held by a brigade of each of the 
First and Third Divisions. The Third Division breaking, caused 
the brigade of the First Division also to break, and all fell back on 
our line. This, with a heavy attack by the enemy in our front, came 
near sweeping away the brigade, and but for the uniiinching brav- 
ery of the officers and men would have done so. Our second line, 
changing front to rear, protected our flank, and the front line 
repulsed several attacks of the enemy. This position we held until 
twelve o'clock midnight, when we were ordered to retire by the 
left flank to a position on the Germanna plank road. In this strug- 
gle we lost very heavily in officers and men. On the plank road we 
took up a new position, and remained until dark of the evening of 
the 8th, when we took up our march for Spottsylvania Court 
House. 

II 

We arrived in front of Spottsylvania Court House about five 
p. M. on the 9th inst. This brigade was deployed on the extreme 
right of the general line, and ordered to advance with it at a given 
signal. This we did, breaking the enemy's line, but the brigade on 
our right, failing to advance with us, caused us to become isolated. 
With the enemy on both flanks, and it growing dark, we were ordered 
to retire to the positions we held before charging and intrench. On 
the morning of the 10th the 49th New York Volunteers was sent 
forward, and charged the outer line of the enemy and captured it 
with a number of prisoners. On the evening of the 10th the brigade 
joined in the assault on the enemy's line under General Upton, and 
assisted in capturing a large number of prisoners, the 43d New 
York capturing one stand of colors. 

On the morning of the 12th we were moved to the rear of the 
position just captured by General Hancock, and ordered to support 
a brigade of this division, commanded ])y Colonel Edwards, at the 
Angle. The brigade was deployed in line and moved to this point, 
and two of the regiments, the 49th and 77th New York, charged the 
Angle and took possession of the crest commanding it, which they 



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held until relieved. The 43d New York, 61st Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers, and 7th Maine were deployed on the right of this position, 
supporting General Upton's brigade. The first line losing heavily 
and closing to the left, caused a vacancy, which these three regi- 
ments moved into, and where they remained two hours, delivering 
a musketry fire, and were relieved and removed to the left to the 
support of a brigade of the Second Corps. The troops which 
relieved the 49th and 77th New York were driven back, and these 
two regiments, with a portion of the Vermont brigade, formed and 
retook the crest. About dark the whole line was withdrawn about 
three hundred yards and went into bivouac for the night. Our loss 
in officers and men was very heavy in this engagement. On the 
13th we remained in this position until dark, when we moved to 
the Anderson house, and the next day, crossed the Ny river. On 
the evening of the 17th we moved to the position in front of the 
Angle, where on the evening of the 18th, the division was formed 
in four lines of a brigade each. We were in the third line, and it 
getting light the advance was made waiting for the Third Division 
to complete their formation. Upon advancing, the Second Corps 
gave on our left, and the two front lines obliquing to the left, 
brought us in the front line, and the Third Division failing to 
advance exposed us to an artillery fire, which took us in reverse, 
on the flank and in front. In this engagement our loss was heavy 
and mostly from artillery. 

Ill 

During the epoch designated as the North Anna, this brigade was 
not engaged, and from that time until we were at Cold Harbor we 
were not engaged, except slight skirmishing. Upon arriving at 
Cold Harbor, on the 1st of June, this brigade changed front to the 
left and protected the flank from this attack. On the morning of 
the 2d we were moved to the right of the Second Corps, joining 
the Eighteenth Corps, and formed in four lines and advanced in an 
assault on the enemy's lines, which proved so strong that we failed 
to accomplish anything but advance our lines. Later in the day 
another assault was tried, but with no better success, when we 



58 History of the 49th Regiment 

intrenched and advanced our lines by regular approaches. We 
remained in these intrenchments until the night of the 12th. 

Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

Daniel Davidson Bidwell, 

Brigadier General Commanding. 

To Captain H. Stevens, 

Assistant Adjutant General, Second Division. 

REPORT OF GENERAL DANIEL DAVIDSON BIDWELL, COM- 
MANDING THIRD BRIGADE, OF OPERATIONS, JUNE 
12th TO JULY 2d 

Headquarters Third Brigade, 

Second Division, Sixth Corps, 
August 20, 1864. 

Sir. — We remained in these intrenchments until the night of 
the 12th of June, when we moved across the Chickahominy, 
via Forge Bridge, to James River, which we crossed on the 
night of the 16th, and arrived in front of Petersburg the next day 
and relieved a portion of the Eighteenth Corps (Major General 
WilHam Farrar Smith's) line. 

On the 18th we advanced our lines about one mile, dislodging and 
driving the enemy, and then intrenched. 

On the 20th w.e were moved to the left, and in connection with 
the Vermont Brigade, relieved a division of the Second Corps, 
where we remained till the night of the 21st, when we moved to 
the extreme left of the general line near the Williams house. In the 
afternoon of the 22d we went into position on the left of the 
Third Division with our line refused toward the Jerusalem plank 
road, and afterward was moved to the support of the Third Divi- 
sion, which had advanced toward the Weldon railroad. The next 
day we moved about one mile to the front, which position we held 
during an attack on our skirmish line near the railroad, and at dark 
we withdrew to our former position, where we remained until the 



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29th, when we advanced to Ream's Station, took position, and 
assisted to destroy the railroad track. 

On the 1st of July we returned to the Jerusalem plank road, and 
on the 2d of July returned to our former position near the Williams 
house. 

It would be useless to attempt to cite individual cases of bravery 
and fortitude during all these severe and bloody engagements. 
Every officer and man did his whole duty, and the stubbornness with 
which every battlefield was contested is attested by the accompanying 
list of casualties. But I desire to call the attention of the general 
commanding the division to the bravery and gallant conduct of 
Captain and Assistant Adjutant General W. H. Long, who by his 
efficiency and zeal rendered me much service and added greatly to 
the success of the brigade ; also to the gallant conduct of Captains 
George Holden Selkirk, George S. Orr and Lieutenant L. C. Small. 
who rendered valuable service during the campaign. 

Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

Daniel Davidson Bidwell, 

Brigadier General, Commanding. 
To Captain H. Stevens, 

Assistant Adjutant General, Second Division. 

On the 24th the 49th Regiment crossed the North Anna River at 
Beaver Dam at four a. m. It was not actively engaged again, 
except in slight skirmishing, until the Battle of Cold Harbor. How- 
ever, it assisted in tearing up the tracks of the Virginia Central 
Railroad, burning the ties, and bending the rails. This was done to 
prevent Lee from receiving supplies from the west of Richmond. 

At midnight of May 31st an order came to march to the left of 
the Army of the Potomac. The Sixth Corps marched until one 
P. M., when a halt was ordered. It was a very hot, dusty dav, and 
many of the men fell out. A number of writers have spoken of 
this as one of the hardest marches the regiment passed thru. After 
resting two hours, orders came at three p. m. to advance, and the 
regiment's skirmish line was soon hotly engaged. The Confederates 
opened their batteries upon the men, but in a short time the Union 



60 History of the 49th Regiment 

batteries were replying. Altho the men of the Sixth Corps were 
weary and exhausted from the long marches of the last several days, 
they dashed impetuously across the ploughed fields with shouts and 
cheers toward the enemy's works. It fairly rained shot and shell 
and rifle balls, but the graycoats were driven to their second line 
of intrenchments, and the battle continued until nine p. m. 

On June 2d the 49th Regiment was in line of battle at two a. m., 
and there was no chance for breakfast. The advance on the enemy's 
works commenced at four a. m., the troops charging in column by 
division. The first line of rifle pits was carried and held against 
repeated counter charges until seven a. m., when the 24th Massachu- 
setts broke and came streaming back in fearful disorder, trying to 
break thru the line of the 49th Regiment. But the 49th made 
them reform, and then allowed them to pass to the rear. 

At eight A. M. there were heavy charges by the right and left 
wings of the Army of the Potomac. The battle continued until four- 
thirty p. M., when the Confederates charged in force on the Second 
Corps, which was on the extreme right of the Union line, but the 
graycoats were driven back with fearful slaughter. Yet the Union 
forces lost heavily in the day's engagement also. 

The 49th Regiment remained in the trenches at Cold Harbor for 
ten days following the battle on the 2d of June. Lieutenant 
Borcherdt states that on the evening of the 4th he came near being 
captured by the Confederates when on skirmish. In establishing 
the vidette line the call came : " Surrender, you Yank." But he 
answered : " Not much, Johnny," and made a run for the Union 
line. The way the bullets whistled about him was a caution, but 
fortunately he escaped unhurt. 

The next day, the 5th of June, vvas a bad day for the 49th 
Regiment. They were in the first line all day, and a skirmish fire 
continued as long as daylight lasted. As tiie enemy's intrenchments 
were strong, and only a hundred yards from the Union line, their 
sharpshooters were continually picking off those who exposed them- 
selves. The intrenchments of the 49th Regiment were fully ten 
feet high. The men made observation holes thru the earthworks 
and a number of the regiment's best shots were on constant watch 
for a head or arm to show itself above the enemy's works. At 
eleven a. m. some of the boys amused themselves by raising a hat 



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on a ramrod above the fort. Very quickly the Confederate sharp- 
shooters perforated it. At two p. m. one of Company C's men was 
sent to the rear for water. He had scarcely gone twenty feet before 
he was wounded by some Confederate sharpshooter. The men had 
to dig regular covered ways to get to the rear without being shot. 
Everyone was cautioned to withdraw their faces from the observa- 
tion holes in the earthworks when shooting at the enemy, but two 
men paid the penalty with their lives for not heeding this injunction. 
In the morning a sharpshooter in Company C, and in the afternoon 
a sharpshooter in Company B, fell over backwards, shot thru the 
head. Each had been doing execution with their Sharps rifles, but 
their turn came, too, and they were buried near the second line 
of intrenchments. At nine p. m. the 49th Regiment was relieved by 
the 7th Maine, and the men marched thru the covered way to the 
third line of works, where they remained for the night. 

Never before had the army of the Potomac been in a position 
where there was such constant danger as at Cold Harbor. Men in 
the front line dared not leave the cover of the breastworks except 
when the darkness of night had settled down, and even then the 
movement of a company to the rear might bring on a storm of 
shells. At all angles to the main line, high breastworks were thrown 
up, and then deep trenches were dug, so that the men might pass 
to and from the front without being observed. Even in spite of 
these extraordinary precautions no soldier was safe in venturing to 
go to the rear by daylight. Not a day passed, even when there was 
no battle, during which someone, in some regiment, was not killed 
or wounded. 

For ten days the Army of the Potomac lay upon the burning sands 
of that arid plain, the greater part of the line without even the 
friendly shelter of a tree ; dirty and grimey and choked with dust, 
yet not discouraged. The true-hearted soldiers of that magnificent 
army uttered no words of complaint. On the 12th of June General 
Grant ordered another flank movement, this time to the James 
River. 

The Second Corps, which held the extreme right of the line, was 
the first to withdraw from its position, and. in the darkness of the 
evening of the 12th of June, marched ofif down the Chickahominy. 
At midnight the Sixth Corps started, every precaution being taken 



62 History of the 49th Regiment 

to deceive the enemy as to the destination of the army. The 49th 
Regiment crossed the Chickahominy at Forge Bridge. Two years 
before in the Peninsula campaign under McClellan, the 49th Regi- 
ment had crossed the same stream not far from this very spot. Thru 
how many vicissitudes of army hfe had the regiment passed since 
that time. On the night of the 16th of June the 49th Regiment 
crossed the James River near Charles City Court House, and the 
next day apeared in front of Petersburg. The Second Division of 
the Sixth Corps here relieved Brooks' Division of the Eighteenth 
Corps. This corps was now commanded by General William Farrar 
Smith, who was formerly commander of the Sixth Corps. 

The Army of the Potomac having failed to take the City of Peters- 
burg by surprise, Grant was compelled to throw up intrenchments 
and sit down in front of the Confederate lines. On the 29th of 
June the 49th Regiment proceeded to Ream's Station to assist in 
destroying the track of the Weldon Railroad. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment during the Cold Harbor 
campaign were as follows : Killed, Henry Boehm of Company B, 
and Stephen C. Thorn of Company C, who lost their lives on the 
5th of June. Thomas Bennett of Company D, was wounded on the 
2d ; John Keneally of Company D, was wounded on the 5th ; George 
Louden of Company C, was wounded on the 6th ; while Frank Hoff- 
man of Company D, who was wounded on the 8th, died of his 
wounds nine days later. Gabriel Steinmetz of Company B, was 
captured by the enemy on the 4th. 

General McMahon, in an article on Cold Harbor in " Battles and 
Leaders of the Civil War," says that in the opinion of the majority 
of its survivors, the Battle of Cold Harbor never should have been 
fought, while General Grant in his Memoirs states : " I have 
always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever 
made." 



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Chapter VIII 

To RELIEVE THE PRESSURE on his front and perhaps to compel 
Grant's removal from before Richmond, Lee sent General 
Early with his corps down the Shenandoah V^alley straight 
against Washington. He easily brushed aside the Union forces in 
the valley and was soon knocking at the outer fortifications of the 
National Capital. Washington was again in terror, and many mili- 
tary writers have contended that had Early, on the 11th of July, 
made a determined efifort he could easily have captured the National 
Capital. One military writer speaks as follows : 

"On July 11th Early's van reined up before the fortifications 
covering the northern approaches to Washington. By afternoon the 
Confederate infantry had come up, and showed a strong line in 
front of Fort Stevens. Early had then an opportunity to dash into 
the city, the works being very slightly defended. The hope at head- 
quarters that the city could be saved from capture was very slender. 
But his conduct was feeble, and during the day the Sixth Corps 
arrived. After this no one of sound nerves had any fear for the 
safety of Washington." 

General Early, in discussing this campaign in an article in 
'• Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," says that his men were so 
worn out and exhausted by the forced marches that they had been 
thru, that it was an utter impossibility to make an attack on the 
11th of July. Everyone concedes that the Sixth Corps arrived at 
Washington in the nick of time, and had it been one day later, it 
would have found the Confederates in possession of the National 
Capital. 

Jubal Anderson Early had been a strong Union man before the 
war ; and as a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention, 
was one of the few who had the courage to vote against the ordin- 
ance of secession. However, when Virginia seceded from the 
Union, he cast his fortunes with his native state, and military writers 
speak of him as one of the best generals the South produced. 



64 History of the 49th Regiment 

At nine o'clock on the evening of the 9th of July orders came to 
the Sixth Corps to march to City Point at once, and without delay 
the troops were in motion. The march of fourteen miles to City 
Point was made in the night, and by noon of the next day the men 
were all on board transports starting northward. At two o'clock 
on the afternoon of the 11th the transports touched the wharves 
in Washington. The process of disembarking occupied but little 
time. President Lincoln stood upon the wharf and chatted 
familiarly with the veterans. As the column formed and marched 
up Seventh street the people crowded upon the sidewalks exclaiming, 
" It is the old Sixth Corps! " " The danger is over now! " Altho 
an hour before Washington was in panic; now as the people saw the 
veterans wearing the Greek cross marching thru their streets, the 
excitement subsided and confidence prevailed. 

The corps marched to the north of the city and bivouacked for the 
night in a grove in the rear of Fort De Russey. To the right 
was Fort Stevens, while on the extreme right was Fort Slocum. 
The next day it was found that the principal force of the enemy 
was in front of Fort Stevens, and here it was determined to give 
them battle. 

The President, members of his Cabinet, and their ladies came out 
to Fort Stevens on the afternoon of the 12th to witness the battle. 
General Wright, commander of the Sixth Corps, stayed in the fort 
with President Lincoln. Soon Colonel Bidwell and his brigade were 
seen approaching. They marched past the fort into the valley 
beyond, where they formed in two lines of battle ; the 49th New 
York on the left, the 7th Maine in the center, and the 77th New 
York on the right. The second line was composed of the 122d 
New York, 61st Pennsylvania, and 43d New York regiments. 

Colonel Bidwell was in command, and according to preconcerted 
arrangements, he was to signal to General Wright, in the fort, his 
readiness for the attack ; then the great guns in the fort were to 
open a storm of shells upon the Confederate position. After volley 
succeeding volley of thirty-two-pound shells had been sent howling 
over his men into the midst of the graycoats. Colonel Bidwell gave 
the order to charge, and the brave fellows started eagerly forward. 
In magnificent order and with light steps they ran forward, up the 
ascent, thru the orchard, thru the little grove on the right, over 



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the rail fence, and up the road straight towards the enemy's posi- 
tion. The Confederates at first stood their ground. Altho obliged 
to give way before the impetuous charge of Bidwell's men, they 
fought bravely, and even in their flight to their second line, they 
turned and poured volleys into their pursuers. 

At the summit of the ascent, the enemy was strengthened by their 
second line of battle. Here they made a stout resistance, and did 
not give way until darkness closed upon the scene, when Bidwell's 
Brigade was left in possession of the ground, having driven their 
adversaries more than a mile. During the night Early's men made 
their escape towards Rockville, while the Third Brigade was relieved 
by the Vermont Brigade. At midnight the Third Brigade returned 
to bivouac in the grove in the rear of Fort De Russ6y, which it had 
left in the morning. 

Thus ended the Battle of Fort Stevens, an engagement which 
receives but scant or no mention at all in our histories. Yet it was 
the only battle of the war fought under the eye of President Lincoln, 
who stood on the works of the fort until peremptorily ordered to a 
safer place by General Wright. It was also where the conspicuous 
bravery of Colonel Bidwell and his gallant brigade brought to him 
the star of a brigadier general. Washington was saved from capture 
and Early was forced to retrace his steps to the Shenandoah Valley. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment from this engagement were as 
follows : Killed, Lieutenant David Lambert, Junior, and Charles 
Layton of Company A ; William H. Gillett of Company D, and Wil- 
liam Ruble of Company E. The wounded were Lieutenant Colonel 
George Washington Johnson, who died of his wound on July 29th ; 
Frederick Frier, David Ingram, Patrick Malloy and James Noon of 
Company D ; Stephen M. Bennett, James A. Gourley and William 
Robbins of Company K ; Joseph Geisler and Daniel Schneider of 
Company B ; Frank Bruggerman and Frank J. Stafford of Company 
I ; Christian Russert of Company E. and Sergeant Nehemiah 
Sperry of Company G. In the engagement Robert J. Cowden of 
Company K was captured by the enemy. 

The author of " Three Years in the Sixth Corps," speaks of the 
burial of those in the Third Brigade, who fell that day, as follows: 



66 History of the 49th Regiment 

" We gathered our dead comrades from the field where they had 
fallen, and gave them the rude burial of soldiers on the common 
near Fort Stevens. None of those high in authority, who had 
come out to see them give up their lives for their country, were 
present to pay the last honors to the dead heroes. No officer of 
state, no lady of wealth, no citizen of Washington was there ; but 
we laid them in their graves within sight of the national capital, 
without coffins, with only their gory garments and their blankets 
around them. With the rude tenderness of soldiers, we covered them 
in the earth ; we marked their names with our pencils on the little 
headboards of pine, and turned sadly away to other scenes." 

On July 13th. the Sixth Corps, together with the Nineteenth 
Corps, started in pursuit of Early's Confederate army. Having 
gone as far as Snicker's Gap in the Shenandoah Valley, orders came 
from General Grant directing General Wright to return to Wash- 
ington at once with the Sixth Corps, that the troops might be 
returned to the Army of the Potomac before Early could reinforce 
Lee. 

Then by way of Leesburg, Drainsville, Lewinsville and Langley 
the men retraced their steps to Tennallytown, five miles out from 
Washington, which place it had left on the 13th. Transports were 
here waiting to convey the corps to City Point. On the 25th of July 
it became certain that Early had not gone to join Lee, but was still 
operating in the Valley. Therefore, on the 26th. orders came for 
the Sixth Corps to march at once to Harper's Ferry. Marching both 
day and night thru Frederick, Jefferson, Knoxville, Newton and 
Sandy Plook, the corps arrived at Halltown, four miles south of 
Harper's Ferry, on the evening of the 29th. 

The next day the men were ordered back again ; for Early's 
cavalry had made a raid into Pennsylvania and burned the City of 
Chambersburg. After marching all night and all day the veterans 
of the Sixth Corps were about played out and had to have some 
rest. So at the little village of Buckeyestown, five miles from 
Frederick, the corps halted for two days. 

There had been so much marching and countermarching all to no 
purpose that, visiting the little army on the 5th of August, 
General Grant decided to change commanders. General Philip 



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Henry Sheridan was put in command of what was now to consti- 
tute the Middle MiUtary Division and his force was to comprise 
the Sixth Corps under General Wright, the Nineteenth Corps under 
General William Hemsley Emory, and the Eighth Corps under 
General George Crook. Also there was a cavalry contingent under 
General Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbet. This marked a new 
era in the history of the Sixth Corps. From the very first it 
had always been a part of the Army of the Potomac, and now it was 
detached to help constitute another army. 

On the 10th of August the march was commenced up the Shenan- 
doah Valley. As the army passed thru Charlestown, the scene of 
the trial and execution of John Brown, every band and every drum 
corps in the army played the air, " John Brown's Body Lies Mould- 
ering in the Grave." Less than five years had gone by since this 
wonderful figure in history had paid the penalty for his conviction 
with his life, and now the very people who had stood about his gal- 
lows and expressed their hatred of him were themselves guilty of 
treason. At Charlestown Daniel Davidson Bidwell received his com- 
mission as brigadier general from President Lincoln, who, witnessing 
his gallant conduct in directing the Battle of Fort Stevens, had deter- 
mined that he should be rewarded. 

The army marched as far south as the little village of Strasburg 
on the south side of the Cedar Creek, where it was confronted by 
Early's batteries planted on Fisher's Hill. At this time Mosby 
and his guerrillas got in the rear of the army at Berryville and 
captured seventy-five wagons loaded with supplies. Under the 
circumstances it was deemed best to fall back to Charlestown, where 
the enemy attacked on the 21st of August, but after several hours of 
severe fighting in which the Second Division of the Sixth Corps 
bore the brunt of the attack, Early's men were driven off, leaving 
the Union forces in possession of the battle ground. 

Altho the Confederates had been repulsed, the position at Charles- 
town was one which might easily be flanked, and during the night 
the army fell back to Halltown, just south of Harper's Ferry. On 
the 15th of September General Grant again visited the army and 
made plans for the fall campaign. Early, however, took the initia- 
tive. On the 18th he sent General Gordon's division towards 
Martinsburg to drive out the Union forces and destroy the govern- 



68 History of the 49th Regiment 

ment property. Sheridan perceived this to be the time to attack 
Early, when his forces were divided. 

So at two A. M. on the 19th the army moved to attack Early at 
Winchester, the Sixth Corps leading the advance. When the Sixth 
Corps arrived before Winchester and formed in line of battle in a 
cornfield ready to charge the enemy, it was found that the Nine- 
teenth Corps, which should have been on the ground, was left far 
behind. Orders were dispatched to hasten it to the field of action, 
but two hours of precious time elapsed before it was in position. 
These two hours of delay gave Early time to strengthen his right, 
to throw up earthworks, and to recall Gordon's division to his 
assistance. At eleven a. m. the advance was sounded, the Nine- 
teenth Corps occupying the right, and the Sixth Corps the left of the 
line. 

But they had not gone far when it was seen that the Nineteenth 
Corps was falling back and the Confederates following with yells 
of victory. The Sixth Corps held its own, and the Eighth Corps 
was brought across the Opequon Creek at quick pace and placed 
in the rear of the Nineteenth Corps. Again the advance was 
sounded, and so impetuous became the charge that in a little while 
Early's divisions were rushing thru Winchester in confusion. 

The next morning pursuit was commenced of Early's retreating 
army, which was found to have halted in a strong position at 
Strasburg. The Confederates were strongly intrenched just south 
of the village on Fisher's Hill. Sheridan perceived that to charge 
Early in front against earthworks bristling with cannon would be 
presumptuous, so he sent Crook with the Eighth Corps on the night 
of the 21st far to the right thru the fastnesses of the North Moun- 
tain to fall upon Early's flank and rear. This they did with the 
utmost secrecy, and the next day the Confederates were surprised by 
a fire in their rear, while the Sixth and Nineteenth Corps pressed 
them in front. Soon the whole of Early's army was in a panic and 
retreating in confusion and rout up the valley. They left behind 
sixteen guns of which Ridwell's Brigade captured six. 

After the iiattle of Fisher's Hill, Sheridan spent some time in 
destroying Confederate property in the valley. Seventy mills, with 
their flour and grain, and over two thousand barns filled with 
wheat, hay and farming implements were thus committed to the 



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flames. Also seven thousand cattle and sheep were either driven 
off, or killed and issued to the men. Whether this cruel destruction 
of property was justified as a military necessity, is open to doubt. 
But at the time it was thoug-ht that as long as a Confederate army 
could subsist in the Shenandoah Valley, just so long a large Union 
force would be obliged to remain there to guard the frontier of Mary- 
land and prevent an attack on Washington. 

On October 10th the Sixth Corps was detached from the army 
in the Shenandoah Valley and began a march northward towards 
the Potomac to go on transports to again join the Army of the 
Potomac; but on the 13th the corps was again turned south and 
reunited with the Nineteenth and Eighth Corps on the north side 
of Cedar Creek, as Early's army had been reinforced by the arrival 
of Longstreet's Corps. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment for these three engagements 
were as follows : Killed, Robert Beatson, Junior ; Lewis Bennett 
and Sergeant Charles A. Sayres of Company C, on September 19th 
at Opequon. Wounded, Henry H. Kingsley of Company E and 
Philip B. Laird of Company K, on August 21st at Charlestown. On 
the 19th of Septembr, August Euscher, Philip Fraemiller and James 
Ryan of Company C; Daniel Schneider of Company B and James 
W. Shaffer of Company D. This was the third time Daniel 
Schneider had been wounded in less than a year, suffering wounds 
at the Bloody Angle, Spottsylvania Court House, on May 12th, and 
at Fort Stevens, July 12th. Philip Laird was also wounded three 
months earlier on May 6th at The Wilderness. 

The three years for which the 49th Regiment enlisted expired 
September 17, 1864 at which time Major Andrew W. Brazee and 
eighty-nine veterans returned to Buffalo. Arriving there on the 
18th of October they were received with distinguished honor and 
mustered out. At this time 1,550 names had appeared on the rolls 
of the regiment. The 410 members remaining, composed of 
re-enlisted men and recruits whose term of enlistment had not 
expired, were consolidated into four companies, under Colonel 
Erastus D. Holt, as the 49th Battalion. 



70 History of the 49th Regiment 

REPORT OF GENERAL BIDWELL, COMMANDING THIRD 
BRIGADE, OF OPERATIONS, SEPTEMBER 19th TO 22d 

Headquarters Third Brigade, 

Second Division, Sixth Corps, 

September 28, 1864. 

Sir. — In obedience to orders from division headquarters, I have 
the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by 
the Third Brigade, Second Division, Sixth Corps, in the Battle 
of Opequon Creek on the 19th instant : 

We broke camp at two a. m. on the morning of the 19th and 
moved to the Berryville and Winchester pike, where we had the 
advance of the infantry column of the army. Crossing the Opequon 
River, and having proceeded about one mile and a half toward 
Winchester, we came up to the cavalry line, engaging the enemy, 
and were ordered to take position on the left of a deep ravine and also 
form the extreme left of the general line. This position was taken 
up by the regiments in this brigade in the following order : The 
122d New York Volunteers were moved into a rail breastwork the 
cavalry had thrown up, and the 77th New York Volunteers were 
placed fifty paces in rear in support ; the 43d New York Volunteers 
were placed on the left in the rear of the 122d New York Volunteers, 
in echelon ; the 49th New York Volunteers on their left, with their 
left refused, and the 7th Maine on the left of the 49th New York 
Volunteers, with its left still more refused and resting on Abraham's 
Creek, and the 61st Pennsylvania Volunteers in reserve, in rear of 
the last three mentioned regiments. While making the dispositions 
the enemy opened on the brigade with a battery, which did us 
considerable injury. As soon as the brigade was in position a 
skirmish line was thrown out crossing Abraham's Creek and con- 
necting with a dismounted cavalry skirmish line. About noon I 
was ordered to have my skirmish line advance, connecting and guid- 
ing with the line of the First Brigade of this division, which was on 
our right. This was done and our line advanced about three 
Inmdred yards. Shortly afterwards the lines of battle were all 
ordered to advance, we guiding to the right. In executing this 
movement the regiments on the left of the 122d New York Volun- 



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teers were moved so much more rapidly as to be able to conform to 
the direction of the general line when we had reached the most 
advanced point gained in this charge. The enemy making a charge on 
the skirmish line on the left of the creek, which charge also threat- 
ened our left. I had the 61st Pennsylvania Volunteers move to protect 
that flank, and some of the regiments of the brigade on our right 
having been thrown into confusion by advancing too rapidly and the 
enemy charging them, I had the 77th New York Volunteers deployed 
on the right of my line, and at the same time ordered Battery M, 
5th United States Artillery, to take position on my right, which, 
opening fire checked the advance of the enemy. In this position 
we remained about two hours, when we were again ordered to 
advance. The enemy had been pressed back on the right of our 
general line and retreated across our front to our left. As before, 
I was ordered to guide and connect with the First Brigade of this 
division, which in advancing kept obliquing to the right, and as the 
enemy were accumulating in large numbers in a piece of woods on 
our left, I had to throw the 43d New York Volunteers in the 
skirmish line, who extended their intervals as we advanced toward 
Winchester. In all this maneuvering the battery before spoken of 
followed us up and went into position and opened fire as each 
successive crest was gained. After having nearly reached Winchester 
the enemy all disappeared in our proper front, and the whole brigade 
line was formed facing to what had been our flank, perpendicular 
to the Strasburg and Winchester pike, and a division of the Nine- 
teenth Corps came up and prolonged our line to the left. We were 
then again advanced about half a mile, but the enemy being in full 
retreat, and it growing dark, we were halted and bivouacked for 
the night. This was the close of the action before Winchester. 

On the 20th instant we pursued the enemy and came upon them 
in their intrenchments at Fisher's Hill, near Strasburg, when two 
regiments of this brigade, the 49th and 77th New York Volunteers, 
were thrown forward as skirmishers and pickets, with their left 
resting on the Strasburg and Winchester pike, taking position on 
the right of the Second Brigade and on the left of the First Brigade, 
and at the same time deployed the 122d New York Volunteers as 
skirmishers in our front, who, attempting to advance, found such a 
heavy line of the enemy in the front as to effectually resist their 



72 History of the 49th Regiment 

advancement. Shortly afterward a regiment of the Third Division 
charged thru them, attempting to dislodge the enemy, but were 
repulsed, and they fell back thru our lines. Just at dark the First 
Brigade of this division charged the enemy at this point and drove 
them from their position, when we took position in the woods on 
their left in two lines, which we intrenched during the night. The 
122d New York were withdrawn and two companies of the 7th 
Maine were advanced as skirmishers. In this position we remained 
until about four p. m. of the 22d instant, when we were ordered 
to advance and take possession of a crest immediately in front of 
the enemy's position, guiding on the First Division, on our left. 
We moved forward to the crest designated and halted. In executing 
this maneuver we were exposed to a heavy artillery fire, and tne 
brigade on our right, being still more exposed than we, halted in an 
old rifle pit about one hundred yards in rear of our front line. In 
this position we remained from twenty minutes to half an hour, 
when reports having come that the left of the enemy had been 
turned, and they showing uneasiness on our right, we were ordered 
to charge their works in our front which had been considered by 
them to be impregnable. At the command " Forward !" the brigade 
started considerably in advance of the First Division and the 
remainder of this division and succeeded in planting simultaneously 
the colors of the 122d and 43d New York Volunteers in an earth- 
work of the enemy, containing four guns, which were captured 
together with about 150 prisoners. Some men of the 43d New York 
Volunteers and 61st Pennsylvania \''olunteers turned and fired two 
of the guns on the retreating enemy, who fled in wild confusion when 
the whole brigade started in pursuit. Arriving near the Winchester 
pike they found the enemy had one piece of artillery with a slight 
support, which they were about to open on us when the 43d New 
York Volunteers charged and captured it, shooting the horse of 
the major of the 1st Louisiana, in command of it, capturing him, 
together with the colonel of the 26th Georgia, who was at the time 
in command of the Georgia brigade. The brigade then followed the 
enemy up the pike until halted, where they remained until joined by 
the 49th and 77th New York Volunteers, who had, during this time, 
been skirmishing in front of the Nineteenth Corps. Here we 
remained until the pursuit of the enemy was taken up by the whole 
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I would call attention to the following officers, whose conduct 
during these engagements were particularly meritorious : Lieuten- 
ant Colonel W. B. French, 77th New York \'olunteers, for the able 
manner in which he handled the skirmish line before Fisher's Hill, 
the 20th and 22d instant. Major C. A. Milliken. 43d New York Vol- 
unteers, for leading his regiment in the charge at Fisher's Hill, 
assisting in capturing five pieces of artillery. Second Lieutenant and 
x\cting Adjutant William J. Kaiser, 49th New York Volunteers, for 
bravery during the engagement at \\'inchester, in which he was 
wounded. Lieutenant R. H. Moses, 122d New York Volunteers, 
for leading his regiment in the charge at Fisher's Hill. Captain 
Alexander B. Sumner, 7th Maine, for ability shown in handling the 
skirmish line before Winchester, and I am particularly indebted to 
]\rajor William H. Long, assistant adjutant general; Captain George 
Holden Selkirk, acting assistant inspector general; Captain George 
S. Orr, acting aide-de-camp, and Lieutenant L. C. Small, acting 
aide-de-camp, for the assistance and services rendered on both these 
occasions, and every officer and man in the command did his duty. 

I am, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

Daniel Davidson Bidvvell, 

Brigadier General, Commanding. 

To Major Charles Mundee, 

Assistant Adjutant General, Second Diznsion. 



74 History of the 49th Regiment 



Chapter IX 

DURING THE ABSENCE of General Sheridan, who had gone to . 
Washington, the Confederate army under General Early, 
before daylight on the morning of the 19th of October, fell 
with terrific force upon the Eighth Corps, which constituted the left 
wing of the Union army. Under cover of a heavy fog the Confeder- 
ates had quietly captured a large part of the picket force and nothing 
then interposed between the graycoats and General Crook's camps. 
Toward these they hastened, and so complete was the surprise, that 
the men of the Eighth Corps were, for the most part, quietly sleep- 
ing in their tents. They soon became fugitives ; and the Confederates 
seizing the Union batteries along that part of the line, turned them 
upon the camps of the Nineteenth Corps, constituting the center of 
the Union army. At the same time a Confederate line of battle was 
advanced against the Nineteenth Corps from the front. 

Daylight was just merging from night, thick mists hung like an 
impenetrable veil over the field, and the men of General Emory's 
corps were unable to tell whence came this storm of missiles. A 
general stampede commenced. The enemy came down upon the 
Nineteenth Corps, which gave way and came back upon the Sixth 
Corps, which constituted the right of the Union army. This was a 
critical moment. The Sixth Corps was at once faced to the rear and 
moved over the plain to meet the advancing hosts of the enemy. 
It was posted in the edge of an oak grove. Bidwell's Brigade was 
on the extreme left. 

With fearless impetuosity Early's army moved up the gentle 
rise of ground in front of the Sixth Corps, and the attack from 
one end of the line to the other was simultaneous. With a clash 
of steel to steel the astonished Confederates were checked. They 
had found an immovable obstacle to their march to victory. The 
Second Division of the Sixth Corps had received the most severe 
shock of the attack, and Bidwell's IVigade holding the Middletown 
pike, had sustained the attack of the whole of Kershaw's Confed- 
erate Division, whicb came tip in compact order to within very 



New York Volunteers 75 

close range. This gallant brigade received the onset with full 
volleys, causing the right of the Confederate line to stagger back. 
The whole Confederate force was, almost at the same moment, 
repulsed by the other brigades of the Second Division. 

The enemy checked, General Bidwell ordered his brigade to charge. 
Rising from their places in the little graveyard and the grove, the* 
brigade rushed forward, the Confederates breaking and running in 
confusion down the slope which they had just ascended with such 
confidence, and across the little stream of water. The Confederates, 
using the twenty-one guns which they had captured from the two 
broken corps, turned this artillery upon the Third Brigade, causing 
Bidwell's men to return to their places under shelter of a rise of 
ground. 

It was at this time that General Bidwell was struck down by a 
cannon ball, and the command of the Third Brigade devolved upon 
Colonel French of the 77th New York Volunteers. Again the 
Confederates charged up the crest of the hill and again they were 
repulsed by the Third Brigade. Finally a third charge was made, 
and this, too, was repulsed. General Getty, who was temporarily in 
command of the Sixth Corps, in his official report of the battle 
states that " the Second Division of the Sixth Corps held its posi- 
tion on a crest of a hill unsupported and unaided for over an hour 
after all other troops had left the field, checking the farther advance 
of the enemy and repulsing every attack, thus giving time to the 
scattered commands to reorganize and reform." 

As the First and Third Divisions of the Sixth Corps had fallen 
back, it was necessary for the Second Division to take a new posi- 
tion, or Early would creep around in their rear and outflank theny. 
So the Second Division moved back leisurely, contesting every inch 
of ground, about a mile to the north of Middletown, with its left 
resting on the Middletown pike, and in this position served as a 
nucleus on which the lines of the army were reformed. As the 
Second Division took this new position they carried with them all 
their wounded, all their shelter tents, and all their personal prop- 
erty of every description. This division was not driven back. It 
had three times repulsed the most desperate charges of the whole 
Confederate army, and was taking a new position only to save 
itself from being outflanked. 



76 History of the 49th Regiment 

In the new position the Second Division formed the left, the 
First Division the center, and the Third Division the right. Gen- 
eral Wright, who was in command of the army during the absence 
of General Sheridan, brought up other troops to this line. The 
cavalry consisting of Custer on the right and Alerritt on the left ; 
and also the Nineteenth Corps, which General Emory had succeeded^ 
in restoring to order, was massed on the right and rear of the Sixth 
Corps. With this new line of battle in the strong position now held. 
General Wright determined that not only should the retreat stop, 
but also that an advance should be made and the Confederates 
driven back across Cedar Creek. Altho Thomas Buchanan Read 
in his poem, " Sheridan's Ride," and many other writers have 
delighted to falsify history in their account of this battle, the fact 
remains that the retreat had stopped before Sheridan reached the 
army at Middletown and the Confederates would have been driven 
back across Cedar Creek just the same even if Sheridan had not 
arrived on the scene at all. 

Between ten and eleven General Sheridan arrived on the ground, 
and he completed the arrangements already nearly finished by Gen- 
eral Wright. At one o'clock the Confederates advanced against the 
right of the Union line, but were repulsed. A brisk fire of artillery 
was kept up by the gra}Coats for some time, but even this died away 
and nothing but the scattering fire of skirmishers was heard. 
Apparently Early had relinquished the idea of any further offensive 
operations, and as little thought that any were designed by Sheri- 
dan. The Confederates quietly proceeded to bring their baggage 
wagons and ambulances across Cedar Creek, and set themselves 
about fitting up the Union camps for their own use. 

It was not until three o'clock that Sheridan gave the order to 
move. The Second Division had to advance upon the lines of the 
enemy over almost open ground, in the face of a heavy fire of 
musketry and artillery, and altho parts of the line yielded for the 
moment to the galling fire, the mass of the division moved steadily 
on, driving the enemiy from its first position back upon its second, 
and eventually forcing them from this, and driving them in con- 
fusion thru Middletown and the plains beyond, to and over Cedar 
Creek. While the impression is prevalent that the Confederate retreat 
became a rout, this too apparently is a misstatement. General 



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Early in his official report of the hattle states that his army retreated 
in good order, and carried with them south of Cedar Creek 1,100 
Union prisoners. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment during this engagement were- : 
Killed, Sergeant William E. Boulles, Charles Smith and John F 
Wark of Company A ; George Herman and George Montgomery 
of Company C, and Michael Lighthalt of Company D. Charles 
Smith was but eighteen years of age. He had enlisted July 12, 1864, 
at Yates, New York, and now three months later his life was sud- 
denly blotted out. 

The wounded were : William E. Beach, John J. Fischer, Henry 
D. Harding, Jacob Herman, Timothy Howard, Captain William 
S. Hudson, Junior, Sergeant Julius Smith and Franklin Wonderlin 
of Company C ; Howard B. Doty, Lieutenant French W. Fisher, 
Anthony Houg, Joseph Ihler, Charles Nagel, William E. Relf and 
William Rush of Company B ; Jacob Bergman, John Foley. Sebas- 
tian Mouray, John Normanton and Charles SeifTert of Company 
D ; Orlin Pratt, Charles Smith and James Vanderpool of Company 
A ; Christian Royan and William Short of Company G ; George 
Rinker of Company E, and John Stewart of Company I. 

Captain William S. Hudson, Junior, Timothy Howard and Orlin 
Pratt had been wounded in the Wilderness engagements, Captain 
Hudson on May 18th, Timothy Howard on May 10th and Orlin 
Pratt on May 6th. Also Jacob Herman had been wounded at the 
" Bloody Angle," Spottsylvania Court House, on May 12th. 

Several of those above mentioned died of their wounds as follows : 
Howard B. Doty, William E. Relf and Christian Royan. The com- 
mand now devolved upon Colonel Erastus D. Holt, who had been 
enrolled in 1861 at Forestville, New York, as first lieutenant of Com- 
pany L Such had been the vicissitudes of the regiment that thru 
deaths, disabilities, and resignation the chief command of the regi- 
ment passed down thru eight companies and threw its mantle of 
leadership upon this brave man of Company L 

It is interesting to note that two future Presidents of the United 
States, Rutherford Birchard Hayes and William McKinley, par- 
ticipated in the Battle of Cedar Creek, and as members of the Eighth 
Corps, fell back several miles in company with the retreat of this 
corps. 



78 History of the 49th Regiment 

REPORT OF GEORGE WASHINGTON GETTY, COMMANDING 
SECOND DIVISION, SIXTH CORPS, OF OPERATIONS, 
OCTOBER 19, 1864 — THE BATTLE OF CEDAR CREEK 

Headquarters Second Division, Sixth Corps, 

November 15, 1864. 

Major. — I have the honor to make the following report of the 
operations of the 19th of October, 1864, the Battle of Cedar Creek: 

At an early hour the camp was aroused by picket firing on the 
flanks of the army, soon followed by heavy musketry on the left. 
The division was immediately ordered under arms, and at about six 
A. M. moved by the left in two lines toward the pike. On reaching 
Meadow Run, a fire from the enemy's skirmishers occupying a 
piece of woods near the pike, was encountered. Skirmishers were 
immediately thrown forward, the woods cleared, and the division 
formed in two lines along the run, nearly parallel to the pike, and 
connecting on the right with the First Division. As soon as formed, 
the lines were advanced across the run, the left thrown forward in 
order to gain possession of the pike. At this juncture, observing the 
troops on the right falling back in confusion, and running thru 
the artillery of the corps, and heavy lines of Confederate infantry 
pressing in that direction, I withdrew the division to the west 
side of the creek, about three hundred yards, to a strong crest, 
semi-circular in form and partially wooded. The second line was 
moved up and extended the first, it being necessary to cover as much 
ground as possible. The right flank was entirely uncovered ; on the 
left, however, where the crest was refused parallel to and bordering 
the run, a skirmish line of Bidwell's brigade (Third), which held 
that flank, was extended along the height and connected with a 
skirmish line of a portion of Merritt's cavalry on the left rear. 
This movement was closely followed up by the enemy, and the 
line was barely established in the new position when he attacked in 
force with great vigor, but was repulsed. The attack fell heaviest 
on the right, Warner's brigade (First), and on the left center, where 
Bidwell's and Grant's brigades joined. The enemy's lines charged 
to within thirty yards of the crest, when, unable to withstand our 
fire, they fell back in disorder. Reforming at the foot of the hill 



New York Volunteers 79 

they again charged, to be again repulsed. The enemy now brought 
up his batteries and concentrated on the division a severe fire of 
artillery, but being sheltered by the ground the loss from this cause 
was lighter than could have been expected. After holding this 
position for over an hour, it became necessary to withdraw the 
division, the enemy having turned the right and opened a flank 
and reverse fire upon the line. Obliquing to the right to gain the 
pike, the division retired in perfect order, marching slowly and 
making several halts, to a position about a mile north of Middle- 
town, where a new line was established, with the left resting on the 
pike, connecting with Merritt's cavalry, already in position on the 
east side of the pike, and slight rail breast works were thrown up. 
The line of skirmishers was strengthened and the farther advance 
of the enemy checked. While repelling the enemy's attacks on the 
crest held in the morning, I was informed that the command of the 
corps. General Ricketts being wounded, had devolved upon me. The 
command of the division was transferred to Brigadier General Lewis 
A. Grant. At this time no portion of the army, with the exception 
of this division, was fighting on the field. The infantry and artil- 
lery, driven by the enemy from the field, had fallen back some dis- 
tance and were reorganizing. 

On withdrawing from the position I sent orders to the com- 
manders of the First and Third Divisions to conform to the move- 
ments of the Second, and when this division was halted the First 
and Third were brought up to the line and placed on the right, the 
Third holding the center and the First the right of the corps line. 
General Sheridan reaching the field between eleven and twelve 
o'clock, I relinquished the command of the corps to Major General 
Wright and resumed that of the division. During this time the 
division lay under a heavy artillery fire, and the enemy's skirmishers 
were sharply engaged with ours, who held them at bay and repulsed 
several attacks in force. Just before one p. m. I received intelli- 
gence from Major General Sheridan, thru one of his aides-de-camp, 
Captain O'Keefe, that the enemy were preparing for an attack, and 
that it would probably fall upon my right flank; also directions 
to mass in that direction. In obedience to these instructions, 
Grant's brigade (Second) was immediately moved to the right and 

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80 History of the 49th Regiment 

posted by Major General Wright in support of the right of the 
Sixth and left of the Nineteenth Corps. The attack was made at 
one o'clock ; fell heaviest, I understand, upon the Nineteenth Corps 
and was repulsed. Grant's brigade was shortly after withdrawn and 
placed in reserve in rear of the center of the division. At three- 
thirty the general advance was made. The division, Grant's 
brigade having previously taken its position in the line, moved for- 
ward over perfectly open ground, with the exception of the extreme 
right, which was screened by the woods, and under a heavy lire for 
half a mile, when a check was experienced. The 93d Pennsylvania 
Veteran Volunteers, on the extreme right of the division, fell back 
in some confusion, for the reason, it is alleged, that the troops on 
their right fell back. At the same time the Third Brigade, which 
held the left, resting on the pike, having advanced to a very exposed 
position, came under a terrific fire of infantry and artillery, and was 
compelled to fall back. Genera;l Grant's brigade (Second) and the 
bulk of Warner's brigade (First), however, stood firm, being some- 
what covered by a stone wall. The Third Brigade and 93d Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers were soon rallied and brought back on the line. 
The division then advanced again, and charging over open ground, 
drove the enemy, who was strongly posted behind stone walls, from 
his first position, back upon his second, near Middletown. Following 
up closely, he was soon forced from this position and driven thru the 
town. The troops pressed hotly after the now broken Confederates, 
without regard to lines or order, as far as Cedar Creek, where the 
command was halted, reformed, and marched back to the camps of 
the morning. 

I take great pride in recapitulating the services of the division in 
the operations of this eventful day. At daybreak the division was 
on the extreme right of the infantry of the army. Immediately after 
daylight it moved by the left toward Middletown, with a view of 
gaining possession of the pike and the high ground near the town. 
On its march it encoiuitercd the enemy, formed line rapidly, and 
immediately advanced, driving the enemy and taking some prisoners. 
At this time, finding itself on the extreme left, compelled, from 
unforeseen causes, to halt and occupy a crest three hundred yards to 
the rear, it held this position unsupported and unaided for over an 



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hour after all other troops had left the field, checking the farther 
advance of the enemy and repulsing every attack, thus giving time 
to the scattered commands to reorganize and reform. Finally, out- 
numbered and outflanked, the division moved back leisurely, con- 
testing every inch of ground, to about a mile north of Middletown, 
with its left resting on the pike, and in this position served as the 
nucleus on which the lines of the army were reformed. In the 
afternoon the division advanced upon the enemy over almost 
entirely open ground, in the face of a heavy fire of musketry and 
artillery, and altho parts of the line had to yield for the moment 
to the galling fire encountered, the mass of the division moved 
steadily on, driving the enemy from his first position back upon his 
second, and eventually forcing him from this position and driving 
him in confusion thru Middletown and the plains beyond, to and over 
Cedar Creek. 

General Daniel Davidson Bidwell, who commanded the Third 
Brigade, was struck by a shell and mortally wounded early in 
the day. Actuated by a true sense of duty and patriotism General 
Bidwell took up arms at the outbreak of the rebellion, and for 
more than three years followed the banner of the Republic, sharing 
with his troops the dangers and privations of active field service. 
As a regimental and brigade commander in the Army of the 
Potomac he took part in all the arduous campaigns and bloody 
battles of that army from Yorktown to Petersburg, and was always 
at the head of his command, at the post of duty and danger. Brave 
and devoted as an officer, earnest, upright, and single minded as a 
man, he was beloved by his command and respected by every one. 
In his death the country and service have suffered a great loss. 

I am major, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

George Washington Getty, 

Brigadier General United States Volunteers, 
Commanding Division. 

To Major C. A. Whiittier, 

Acting Assistant Adjutant General. 



82 History of the 49th Regiment 

Mayor's Office, Buffalo, New York, October 24, 1864. 

To the Honorable the Common Council: 

Gentlemen. — It is my melancholy duty to announce the death 
of General Daniel Davidson Bidwell, of this city, who was killed 
in the Battle of Cedar Creek, on the 19th instant, and to transmit 
the accompanying communication from Colonel WilHam Findlay 
Rogers, of the 74th Regiment, New York National Guard. I 
recommend that the use of the Council Chamber be granted as 
requested, and that the invitation to attend the funeral be accepted. 

Among the names of Buffalonians rendered historic by the war, 
none will occupy a higher place on the scroll of fame than the late 
General Bidwell. Leaving an important position of civil trust to 
do battle for the cause of the Union, devotedly and unostentatiously 
discharging his duty on many a bloody field, loved by his soldiers 
and commanding the confidence of his superior officers, promoted 
from the rank of Colonel to that of Brigadier General for gallant 
conduct, he has at last sealed his devotion to his country with his 
life. As a citizen he had won the regard of the community by his 
amiability and his correct deportment ; as a soldier, he has given 
proof of those qualities of mind and heart, that unfaltering courage 
and iron will, which entitle him to the highest honors that a grate- 
ful and sorrowing people can bestow. It is becoming that the 
municipal government should testify to its respect for the memory 
of one who has died that the Nation may live. 

Respectfully submitted, 

William G. Fargo, 

Mayor. 



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The following is the communication referred to : 

State of New York, 
Headquarters 74th Regiment, National Guard, 

October 24, 1864. 
Honorable William G. Fargo, Mayor: 

Dear Sir. — I have the honor to advise you and thru you the 
Honorable Common Council, that the remains of the late General 
Daniel Davidson Bidwell, United States Volunteers, will probably 
arrive in this city this day. 

Permission is respectfully requested to allow the remains to lie 
in state in the Council Chamber until the hour of the funeral. 

The city authorities are respectfully invited to participate in the 
funeral ceremonies. 

I have the honor to be, 

Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

William Findlay Rogers, 
Colonel y-fth Regiment. National Guard, State of Neiv York. 



Whereas, This Council has heard, thru the communication of his 
honor, the Mayor, of the death on the field of battle, of General 
Daniel Davidson Bidwell, be it 

Resolved, That the Council does hereby express its heatfelt sor- 
row, and put on record its tribute of respect to the memory of the 
deceased. General Bidwell was well known to the members of this 
Council, and was highly esteemed. At one time an Alderman and 
member of this body, and at various time Police Justice and Justice 
of the Peace in this city, his official conduct was ever characterized 
by great ability and unbending integrity. But it was chiefly in his 
capacity as a private citizen, as a noble gentleman and a true friend, 
that he won the hearts of all who knew him. When the country 
made its call for defenders against the assaults of rebellion. General 
Bidwell responded and threw his whole soul, with his sword, into 



84 History of the 49th Regiment 

the service of the Union and Constitution. His mihtary experience 
rendered his zeal more than ordinarily effective, and from the first 
his friends have heard of him as ever at the post of duty and danger, 
esteemed and relied on by his superior officers. His services, his 
cool, undaunted courage, his clear military mind, have been con- 
spicuous on a score of fields and have often obtained the plaudits of 
commanding generals. When at last he sealed his devotion to the 
Union with his blood, not this Council chiefly, not this city alone, 
not even the great State, only to whose name his valor has added 
luster, but the whole country, was called to mourn. No braver 
soldier has laid his life upon the nation's altar of sacrifice. By his 
fall the cause of the country has been made still more sacred. His 
name and memory are a bequest which the people will cherish and 
forever keep fresh. 

Resolved, That the several recommendations of his honor, the 
Mayor, be adopted by this Council, and as a further respect to the 
memory of the deceased this Council will attend the funeral in a 
body, and that it do now adjourn. 



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Chapter X 

AFTER THE Battle OF Cedar Creek Shcriclan's army fell back 
twenty miles to Winchester, where it went into winter 
quarters. All offensive operations in the Shenandoah 
Valley were now over. 

On the 9th of December the Sixth Corps was recalled to Wash- 
ington, and from thence went to the front to once more become part 
of the Army of the Potomac and take its place in the trenches at 
Petersburg, Virginia. Many changes had taken place during the 
five months the corps had been detached from the Army of the 
Potomac, and now the men were glad to be reunited to the grand 
army with whose history it had so long been associated. 

When the Sixth Corps left the Army of the Potomac in July the 
Union line of intrenchments extended only a little beyond the 
Jerusalem plank road. But when the Sixth Corps returned in 
December the Union line crossed the Weldon Railroad and reached 
Hatcher's Run, nearly eight miles beyond the position occupied in 
July. 

In March the Third Brigade of the Second Division of the Sixth 
Corps of which the 49th Regiment was a part was sent forward to 
take and hold the Confederate picket line near the Squirrel Level 
road. The Third Brigade gallantly executed the order, and notwith- 
standing the enemy brought nine pieces of artillery to bear upon it. 
and sent reinforcements to the point, the ground was held. 

Lee had stretched out his line of intrenchments so far that his 
line had become very thin, and fearing that Grant would break 
thru, he determined to retreat to Danville, leaving Richmond and 
Petersburg to their fate. He hoped to march farther south and 
unite his army to that of General Joseph Eggleston Johnston. 

But he had waited too long. At half past four a. m. on the 2d of 
April, 1865, the Sixth Corps broke thru the Confederate position in 
front of Forts Fisher and Welch as far as Hatcher's Run. Tn this 
engagement the 49th Regiment, with the 77th New York Volun- 
teers, formed the front center of the assaulting and triumphing 



86 History of the 49th Regiment 

column, and the 49th Regiment was the first to plant its flag on the 
works of the Confederates on the South Side road. 

Again on the 6th of April the Sixth Corps had a sharp engage- 
ment with a portion of Lee's army at Sailor's Creek, where they had 
thrown up breastworks behind this difficult and marshy stream. 
The counter charge of the Confederates here was an act of desperate 
madness, and resulted in the surrender of several thousand of Lee's 
men to become Union prisoners. 

Thus the right of the Confederate army was annihilated, and 
there was no longer any hope of escape for Lee southward. On the 
9th of April the Confederate leader surrendered at Appomattox 
Court House. After the surrender, the Sixth Corps was ordered to 
Danville, V'irginia : and while there the 49th Regiment was detailed 
to act as an escort to an officer connected with the corps staff, who 
was instructed to visit Greensboro, North Carolina, and confer with 
General Johnston, who commanded all of the Confederate army 
that was left at that time. 

The casualties in the 49th Regiment during these last three 
engagements were as follows : Wounded, John Speck of Com- 
pany A ; Frank J. Ritter of Company B, and Maurice P. Sullivan 
of Company E, on March 25th ; Colonel Erastus D. Holt, and Wil- 
liam Armstrong and James Turner of Company A, on April 2d, 
and Captain Solomon W. Russell, Junior, of Company D, on April 
6th. 

Five days later Colonel Holt died of his wounds in the hospital 
at City Point, Virginia. He never recovered consciousness from 
the bullet wound in his head, while leading his men in the charge 
at Petersburg, which pierced the Confederate line. Chautauqua 
County furnished no better or braver man during the war than 
Colonel Holt. Entirely unaided by any outside influences, but sim- 
ply upon his own merit, he rose to the command of the regiment. 
When a captain of Company I he was offered a higher position in 
another regiment, but he refused to take it, saying that he had prom- 
ised the men when they were enlisting in the 49th Regiment, he 
would stay with them to the end. And stay he did with the shat- 
tered fortunes of the regiment until death took him from his com- 
rades. 



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The command of the 49th Regiment now devolved upon Colonel 
George Holden Selkirk, who left Buftalo, New York, in 1861 as 
first lieutenant of Company D, and to whom fell the duty of bring- 
ing home in 1865 the little remnant of the gallant 49th Regiment. 

Several of the men of the 49th Regiment were captured by the 
Confederates during the closing days of the war, as follows : 
Charles Lewis of Company E on January 9th. Julius Burckherdt 
of Company C and Alexander Tosh of Company E on March 27th, 
and John C. Gardner of Company A on April 2d. 

The Confederacy was no more and the Union was saved. It was 
resolved to bring as many as possible of the million Union soldiers 
thru Washington for a last grand review. For two days, May 22d 
and 23d, the veterans paraded thru the avenues of the capital, 
reviewed by their officers, the President, the members of Congress, 
and by hundreds of distinguished people who had come to witness 
the grand spectacle. 

On the 27th of June, 1865. at Washington, the 49th Regiment, 
consisting of 18 officers and 274 enlisted men, was mustered out. 
The last roll was called the last banner furled and the war-scarred 
soldiers departed from the National capital to receive the welcome 
of waiting ones at home. But in many homes in Chautauqua, Erie, 
Niagara and Westchester counties, where the 49th Regiment had 
been recruited, were broken hearts, never to be gladdened by the 
return of father, son or brother. In a few days the soldier was 
once more a private citizen, and the stirring scenes of four years, 
thru which the 49th Regiment had passed, were soon to become 
memories which should live again only in the fireside tale of the 
veteran or on the page of the historian. 

In 1883 the veterans of the 49th Regiment organized a X'eterans' 
Association, which has met in a reunion of comrades of the 49th 
Regiment every year since. These reunions are usually held in the 
summer upon the shores of Chautauqua Lake, where the members 
with their families come together for a day, to recall the stirring 
scenes of long ago, when Bidwell led them at the " Bloody Angle," 
Fort Stevens and Cedar Creek. 



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At the Reunion held on June 27, 1901, at Jamestown, New York, 
it was decided to erect a monument at the " Bloody Angle," Spott- 
sylvania Court House, Virginia, to commemorate the valor, deeds 
and memories of the brave men who there gave their lives for their 
country's flag. A monument committee, consisting of Norman R. 
Thompson, Alexander H. McKelvy, Joseph D. Wilder, Nehemiah 
Sperry and Sumner A. Smith, received contributions from one hun- 
dred and three comrades and friends, amounting to $578. A plot 
of ground was purchased of E. L. Landram of Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia, where the battle was fought on May 12, 1864. 
On October 9, 1902, the monument was dedicated with appropriate 
ceremonies, addresses being delivered by Sergeant Alexander H. 
McKelvy of Warren, Pennsylvania, and Comrade William Mulkie 
of Corry, Pennsylvania. 

The State of New York erected monuments for all the New 
York regiments which participated in the Battle of Gettysburg, vtpon 
that famous battlefield. The one erected for the 49th Regiment 
cost $1,500, and was dedicated on July 2, 1893. The ceremonies 
consisted of an invocation by Reverend S. S. Ballou, and addresses 
by Colonel Thomas T. Cluney, Norman R. Thompson, John H. 
Pickett and Alexander H. McKelvy. 

At the 1915 Reunion, Comrade Sumner A. Smith gave the results 
of his efforts to locate the graves of soldiers of the 49th Regiment 
in the various national cemeteries : 

United States National Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland — Edward Bacon, 
Company E, December 28, 1864; Philip Brown, Company B, September 22, 
1862; Cyrus Covell Junior, Company G, October 21, 1862; William H. 
Downs, Company K, September 12, 1862; Horace Failin;^, Company H, Octo- 
ber 8, 1862; Nathan Herrick, Company B, October 24, 1862; Gabriel Stein- 
metz, Company B, October 14, 1864; Adin C. Stringham, Company D, Octo- 
ber 3, 1862; Henry Vanderhorst, Company A, December 19, 1864. 

Louden Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland — John G. Baker, Company 
I, October 16, 1862; Enoch Chapin, Company A, November 1, 1862; Oliver 
Harrington, Company G, June 15, 1862; Alvah Hunting, Company I, Sep- 
tember 19, 1862; John Nelson, Company G, November 14, 1862; Philip 
Stabler, Company B, October 24, 1862. 

Arlington Cemetery, Virginia — Henry J. Gifford, Companies G, A and E, 
died December 29, 1909. 

National Cemetery, IVinchestcr, Virginia — Michael Lighthalt, Company 
D, October 19, 1864; George Montgomery, Company C, October 19, 1864; 



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John F. Wark, Company A, October 19, 1864; George Herman, Company C, 
October 19, 1864; Charles Smith, Company A, October 19, 1864; Henry D. 
Harding, Companies G and C; Robert Beatson Junior, Company C, Septem- 
ber 19, 1864; John Thies, Company I, August 21, 1864. 

Yorktozcn National Cemetery — Morley U. Freeman, Company G, April 30, 
1862; James H. Carson, Company F, May 7, 1862; Milton Lewis, Company 
K, April 5, 1862; Samuel S. Jordan, Company F, June 18, 1862. 

Gettysburg National Cemetery — Nicholas E. Baquet, Company E, July 6, 
1863. 

Battle Ground National Cemetery, District of Columbia — William H. Gil- 
lett, Company D, July 12, 1864. 

Richmond National Cemetery — Charles H. Hickmott, Company F, May 
6, 1864. 

Culfepper National Cemetery — Horace R. Benson, Company K, December 
2Z, 1863. 

United States National Cemetery, Cold Harbor, Virginia — Henry Boehn, 
Company B, June 5, 1864. 

Fredericksburg National Cemetery — Hugh A. Calderwood, Company A, 
May 6, 1864; Philip S. Moriarity, Company E, May 12, 1864; George Part- 
ridge, Company E, May 12, 1864; Amenzo Denmark, Company F, May 6, 
1864; Henry C. Valentine, Company I, May 6, 1864; James S. Lyon, Com- 
pany G, May 5, 1864; Wesley B. Steele, Company H, May 16, 1863. 

Cypress Hills National Cemetery — Jeremiah Sheppard, Company K, June 
9, 1862; Walter S. Hale, Company G, October 8, 1862; Nelson Harrington, 
Company K, October 26, 1862; Edward McQue, Company I, November 30, 
1862; Willard L. Stanton, Company B, August 21, 1864; Theodore C. Wil- 
liams, Company H, July 8, 1862; George W. Culver, Company H, March 20, 
1863. 

Philadelphia National Cemetery — Philip Lich, Company P., August 10, 
1862; Arthur Newman, Company A, June 23, 1864; Job W. Chubbuck, Com- 
pany G, October IS, 1862; George W. Hill, Company K, November 16, 1862. 

Soldiers' Home National Cemetery, Washington, D. C. — James A. Baker, 
Company C, January 20, 1863; James Campbell, Company F, May 20, 1862; 
Simon W. French, Company I, May 31, 1863; Richard M. Gorsline, Com- 
pany G, March 12, 1862; John L. Horn, Company B, September 26, 1862; 
David J. Hotchkiss, Company G, October 23, 1862; Uriah Houghton, Com- 
pany A, June 18, 1862 ; Peter Kibley, Company E, October 8, 1862 ; Silas M. 
See, Company G, November 18, 1862; Charles Linnenbitz, Company B, Sep- 
tember 27, 1862; Charles McFarlane. Company C, June 29, 1863: Spencer 
Murdock, Company G, October 21, 1862; Daniel Olmstead, Company A, 
October 27, 1862; Samuel Parnwell, Company A, September 17, 1862; 
Charles Roder, Company D, May 31, 1863; John A. Ross, Company E, 
March 13, 1862; Henry E. Smith, Company G, September 13, 1862; Daniel 
Walker, Company D, August 9, 1863. 

Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, il/ary/and — Rudolph Giggley. 
Company F, September, 1862; Sylvester S. Haynes, Company G, November 



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30, 1862 ; William Klein, Company I, December 16, 1862 ; Casper Leveck, 
Company B, January 15, 1863; Thomas J. Miles, Company G, September 17, 
1862; Jonathan R. Button, Company G, September 17, 1862; Chauncey 
Price, Company K, November, 1862; Charles Sturdevant, Company K, Sep- 
tember 30, 1862; John Wagner, Company B, February IS, 1862. 

On October 19, 1914, twenty-two veterans of the 49th Regiment 
journeyed to Bufifalo, New York, to pay tribute to the memory of 
General Daniel Davidson Bidwell, it being the fiftieth anniversary 
of his death. The anniversary exercises were held in the conven- 
tion hall of the Hotel Statler, and were presided over by Norman 
R. Thompson of Jamestown, New York, the president of the 49th 
Veterans' Association. A large attendance was present of veterans, 
friends and admirers. 

Colonel George Holden Selkirk told of the " The Homecoming 
of the 49th Regiment in 1865." Miss Grace Carew Sheldon of 
Bufifalo gave " A Child's Remembrance of the Funeral of General 
Bidwell." Comrade Sumner A. Smith of Kennedy, New York, had 
for his subject, " Our Flag," and as he concluded by singing an old- 
time war song, " Long, Long Ago," the whole audience was deeply 
moved. Sergeant Alexander H. McKelvy of Warren, Pennsyl- 
vania, made a forceful speech, and then John D. Wells of Buffalo 
read two original poems, written especially for the occasion, " A 
Soldier's Grave," and " The Vanishing Troops." George D. Emer- 
son of Buffalo told of " When the 49th Regiment Went Away from 
Buffalo, and When It Came Back." 

The colors of the 49th Regiment were deposited with the Adju- 
tant General of the State of New York on October 5, 1865, and, 
with those of all the other New York regiments, are now on exhi- 
bition in the State Capitol at Albany, New York. 

One by one the veterans of the 49th Regiment, who helped to 
make history in the national crisis of the four years from 1861 to 
1865, are passing to the Great Beyond, and soon they will all be 
gone, but the glorious record of the 49th Regiment will live as long 
as the American Republic survives. 



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Chapter XI 

LARNED'S TRIBUTE TO GENERAL DANIEL DAVIDSON 

BIDWELL 

Address delivered at the dedication of a monument to his memory in Forest 

Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York, October 19, 1871, by 

JosEPHus Nelson Larned 

SEVEN YEARS AGO TO-DAY the brave, good soldier, who lies at 
rest yonder, and whose name has been written upon this rec- 
ord of stone, flung his life into the scales in which the ran- 
som of the Republic was then being weighed. 

It does not seem so long ago to us, who remember, as tho the 
interval had been weeks instead of years, that sad and solemn day 
when the torn body of our dead friend and fellow citizen was 
borne back to us for burial. It does not seem so long ago, but the 
years slip from us as tho they were sand in our fingers, and, as 
treacherous as the sands, they sift and heap themselves so fast upon 
every precious or sacred memory that we may leave unshrined, that, 
before we know, the dreary waste of the forgotten past is swallow- 
ing it up. 

That is why this monument has been builded, near the grave of 
the good soldier who died seven years ago to-day ; who died on 
one of the battlefields of the last and decisive encounters of civiliza- 
tion with barbaric force, giving the blood of a noble heart to the 
great seal, of immortal and immutable validity, with which the 
charter of freedom was stamped at last. Even to us who knew him, 
vividly and tenderly cherished as our recollection of the man and 
of his heroic life and of his patriotic death is now — it is not impos- 
sible that the time might come, even to us, when the image of the 
one and the record of the other would have faded to indistinctness 
in our minds, if now and again they were not renewed by the see- 
ing of some impressive memento like this. And how far, at the best 
of it, thru the little remainder of our span of life would the recol- 
lection in which we shall keep them go toward the immortality of 



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remembrance that is due to those who died, as this man died, in 
the defending of a great cause? Unless we have tremendously 
mistaken all the meaning and consequence of events, the heritage 
of freedom and free government which they redeemed at the price 
of their lives is the heritage of the whole future of the human race 
— destined to pass from father to child with augmentation and 
accumulation, down to the last generation of mankind. Surely the 
succeeding heirs of so great an inheritance, of the precious capital- 
ization of patriotic blood, will not forgive us if we fail to preserve 
and transmit to them the names and the memory of the men to 
whom they owe it. Nor could we forgive ourselves, or respect our- 
selves, if we failed to keep their memory green and their names 
monumentally inscribed. A pious duty, alike to the dead, to the liv- 
ing and to the unborn millions who will come hereafter — a pious 
duty with which loving, reverent and grateful feelings coincide — 
impel the building of such memorial shafts. It would be pitiful to 
leave it so that there could ever be a time, while marble will last 
or granite endure, when our children's children, or a child of theirs, 
could approach this spot and not be hushed by the silent admonition 
of an ever lifted finger of stone, and told to whisper reverently 
the name of one of those who shielded the Republic with their 
bodies and took upon themselves the mortal blows with which trea- 
son tried to strike it down. 

All around us in this place there is more than a score of such 
graves: Wilcox, the Wilkesons, the Burts, Bullymore. Rudd, 
Faxon, Mulligan, Dewey, Ellis, Blatchford, Tuttle, Woltge, Hos- 
mer, Farnham, Wallace, Herriman. Richardson. Fero. Newell, Jus- 
tin, and many more are here, and I trust that the chisel which has 
begun its work, in this, will not rest until it has marked the burial 
place of every one — the General and the private soldier alike ; for 
the equality of a common martyrdom obliterates every gradation of 
rank in that high peerage to which they have all been raised. 

I have said that he who lies here was a brave, good soldier. He 
was more than that. The brave heart was as tender and true and 
honest as it was brave ; full of the conscience of duty, and there- 
fore full of that grandest patriotism of all, which grows not so 
much out of the pride of country, which the serf of any autocrat 



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may feel, as out of faith in and hope for the institutions of free 
govemment, upon which this nation of United States is founded. 
In his case, as with so many others whose stuff was tried by the 
exigency of war, it was the good citizen that made the good soldier. 

When I say these things of him I am not using empty and at 
random the phrases of eulogy. I am declaring the testimony of 
all who best knew Daniel Davidson Bidwell, both before and after 
he entered the perilous path of duty which led to his death. We 
most of us knew him well in those peaceful days when he was with 
us here. Doubtless there are some now present who knew him 
from his boyhood up, for he was born, cradled and reared in Buf- 
falo. He was the son of Benjamin Bidwell, the pioneer shipbuilder 
of this port. His birth occurred in the then separate village of 
Black Rock in the year 1816. I do not propose to follow the details 
of his life, because I could not trace in them, if I did, the growth 
or shaping of the man, which is all that makes the details of such 
a life interesting. 

At the age when his profession was to be chosen he studied law 
in the ofifice of the late James Barton. For some reason, however, 
his pursuit of law at that period ended with the initiatory study 
and he never entered upon professional practice. I think it must 
have been more by circumstances than by preference that he was 
led for a time into mercantile life, for it is certain that his nature 
was not that of a man of business. He was careless of money and 
had no taste for the speculation or the thrifty trade by which it is 
accumulated. A few years passed in the employment of a firm in 
which his father and elder brother were partners, were followed 
by his election to the office of Justice of the Peace, and some years 
later he was called to a more important magistracy — that of 
Police Justice for the city, which he filled until the outbreak of the 
war. It is an office for which few men are fitted and his rare adap- 
tation to its trying and difficult duties became all the more marked. 
He was a just man by every instinct of his mental, as well as liis 
moral nature ; keen in his reading of men ; quick and seldom err- 
ing in the detective faculty of a shrewdly honest mind, which sifts 
the truth out of contradictions ; firm, with the firmness that is sin- 
ewy and human — not of flint ; stern and austere when occasion 



94 History of the 49th Regiment 

needed, but always with a hidden kindness looking out of the 
kindly eyes. It seems to me that he was almost the model of a 
magistrate for such a court as the one in which he sat. My duties 
as a reporter of news at that time took me almost daily to his court, 
and it was there that I learned to feel toward him the affectionate 
respect which I am trying to express with sincerity to-day. 

From his earliest manhood he had been exceedingly fond of mili- 
tary exercises, and to that taste we owe the most important public 
services of his life — services which must be measured far back 
of those that he rendered on the actual field when war occurred. 
It is doing no injustice, I am sure, to others who labored with him 
in the good work, which so few people appreciated then or under- 
stood, to say that during twenty years prior to the war no man in 
this community did so much as he to cultivate, keep alive and make 
contagious the spirit of those mititia organizations, without which 
the national government in 1861 could have summoned nothing bet- 
ter than a mob to meet the first onset of the Southern rebellion. 
He trained himself first as private in the old 65th Regiment of the 
State Militia, then as a lieutenant, and afterwards as Brigade 
Inspector. On the death of Captain Burdett of Company D in the 
65th, he was chosen to the captaincy of that company, which became 
thenceforward the central object of his thoughts and aspirations. 
He re-created it, infused it with his own soldierly enthusiasm and 
ardor, and made it what no company of citizen soldiery had ever 
been before. Presently he withdrew his company from the Sixty- 
fifth Regiment, re-organizing it as an independent corps, with a 
view of making it the nucleus of a new regimental organization. 
The new regiment soon grew into existence, and Captain Bidwell's 
Company D became part of what is now the 74th Regiment of the 
New York State National Guard. He was ofifered the colonelcy 
of the regiment, but refused it. The company into which he had 
drawn the best young manhood of Bufifalo had grown into his life 
and became part of himself. It was his pride, his pet, his military 
family, which he loved with fatherlike affection. And all the time 
I think he looked with serious forethought to the possible time of 
unexpected public need when this school of young soldiers, whom 
he was training up, might prove the usefulness of his work. I do not 



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believe that his expenditure of time, and care, and interest, and 
money, upon what used to be sometimes laughed at as " amateur 
soldiering " — I do not believe that it was all amusement and play 
to him, but I do believe that he kept continually in his mind the 
recollection that sometime the country might have need of men who 
knew something of the discipline and art of action in arms together. 

That time came at last, and he was ready, and the men whom 
he had trained for it were ready. How many out of that old Com- 
pany D there were who answered the national summons I cannot 
state, but we know that they outnumbered the few who by any 
course, were held at home. The pupils and privates in that little 
school of amateur soldiering became teachers and leaders of the 
rude troops that were hastily made up for actual war, and the use- 
fulness of the training which had prepared them for such a service 
is more than any man can estimate. 

His place of duty was quickly found. During the summer of 
1861 the 49th Regiment of New York Volunteers was enlisted and 
organized with Colonel Bidwell in command, and on the 16th of 
September, that year, he led it away to the seat of war. It reached 
the field when General McClellan was reorganizing the Army of 
the Potomac in front of Washington. Its redly written history for 
the four fateful years that followed is the sad and glorious history 
of that heroic army, a part of which it remained almost to the end. 
The battles and disasters of the Peninsular campaign from York- 
town to Malvern Hill ; the second defeat at Bull Run ; the costly 
victories at South Mountain and Antietam ; the bloody and terri- 
ble failures at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville ; the deadly but 
glorious conflict at Gettysburg, were among the fiery ordeals thru 
which it passed and by which its thinned ranks became hardened 
into a veteran line. At the very outset his men learned that their 
Colonel was one who cried "Come!" and showed the way. He 
never hesitated to expose himself to more than the dangers of his 
regiment, in order to exhibit an inspiring exauiple. His face was as 
calm, his bearing as cool, his mind as composed, his voice as steady 
when he rode along the line thru a storm of plunging shells or 
whistling bullets, as it used to be when he led some holiday parade. 
Of course there was confidence between commander and men in 
such a case — confidence and warm affection, too. 

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There came a time when that perfect disciphne of confiding obedi- 
ence to which Colonel Bidwell had trained his command, saved a 
whole army from disaster. It was one of the nights of those terri- 
ble days in the Wilderness, when Grant set out to hew his way to 
the rebel capital. The enemy had stolen a march into the rear of 
the Sixth Corps, which formed the right of the Union line. Our 
troops were surprised, confused and rolling up in appalling dis- 
order, until the rout reached the position which was occupied by 
the veteran 49th, and there it was stayed by the cool, calm courage 
of Colonel Bidwell. " His was the form," says a newspaper cor- 
respondent who wrote of the scene — " His was the form, on that 
portentous evening, that sat among the bullets upon his horse, in 
the language of General Sedgwick, ' like a man of iron ' coolly 
directing the movements which repulsed the enemy, gave us back 
the field and saved the whole army of the Potomac from disaster." 
Had Sedgwick lived, there can be no doubt that the " man of 
iron " would have dated his promotion to the rank of General from 
that portentous evening. But he was to wait a little longer for his 
well-earned " star " and to win it anew. 

In July, 1864, when Richmond had been reached and invested, 
the Sixth Corps was hastily detached and hurried to Washington, 
for the defence of the capital, then threatened by the demonstra- 
tions of Early, who had overwhelmed Hunter and Sigel and 
broken out of the Valley of the Shenandoah. It arrived just in 
time to confront the rebel advance at the outer line of the defences 
of the capital. Colonel Bidwell was then commanding the Third 
Brigade of the Second Division, and his Brigade was selected to 
drive the enemy back. A brilliant engagement followed — the well 
remembered battle of Fort Stevens — in which the troops under his 
command were alone engaged. It was fought under the eye of 
President Lincoln who had ridden out to witness the battle, and 
Colonel Bidwell's promotion was determined then and there. He 
had broken the rebel line, and their retreat from the front of Wash- 
ington followed speedily after. He received his commission as 
Brigadier General a month later at Charlestown, Virginia. 

The Sixth Corps had then joined the forces in the Shenandoah; 
Sheridan had assumed the command of the whole, and that won- 



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derful campaign in the valley, which we think of with bounding 
pulse, even now, was just being opened. Its thrilling episodes fol- 
lowed in quick succession. Early and his swaggering army went 
whirling thru Winchester and staggering from Fisher's Hill ; 
Sheridan had pursued its shattered columns as far as Harrisonburg ; 
had devastated the whole region to make it incapable of subsisting 
a rebel force, and had fallen back to Cedar Creek to enter camp and 
give his exhausted soldiers rest. 

And now we approach the tragic, culminating scene in which our 
friend acted his last, heroic part, in the stormy dramas that are 
played this side of the grave. A few days had sufficed to bring 
reinforcements to the beaten rebel army and measurably recon- 
struct its broken organization. Maddened by the humiliation of his 
defeats. Early had crept back to the vicinity of the Union camp on 
Cedar Creek and watched for an opportunity to snatch revenge. 
The Sixth Corps had been ordered back to the Richmond front. 
Early learned the fact ; but the order had been instantly counter- 
manded and that he did not learn. Sheridan had gone to Wash- 
ington, and Early had been informed of it, but his spies did not 
tell him that the journey had been made at flying speed and that 
Sheridan, on his return, was already only twenty miles away, sleep- 
ing that night at Winchester. And so he planned a surprise attack 
upon the Union army for the early morning of the 19th of Octo- 
ber. A thick fog settled in the valley and helped his design. 
Silently, in the gray dawn of the morning, the three divisions which 
he had massed for the attack, stripped of every accoutrement 
except their ammunition and their arms, stole thru the fog and 
thru the shadow of a wooded hill, across the intervening creek, and 
dashed with terrifying yells upon the works of the sleeping troops 
at the left of the Union line. The surprise was complete. There 
was little chance for rallying in the foggy darkness, under the 
deadly fire which the yelling assailants poured in as they advanced. 
The Eighth Corps, which held the left of the line, was sent flying 
from its intrenchments, only to encounter another division of the 
enemy, which had reached its flank by a circuitous route. Large 
numbers of prisoners were taken in the well drawn net, and the 



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whole left wing of Sheridan's army on Cedar Creek was practically 
cleared from the field within an hour. The Nineteenth Corps, which 
occupied the center of the line, with the Sixth Corps on its right, was 
now left exposed to the enemy, who closed hotly in upon its flank, 
while Early, at the same time, pressed it with his remaining forces 
in front, and the artillery of the enemy, together with the guns that 
they had captured, were tearing its ranks with shell. It was more 
than flesh and blood could bear. The corps wavered. The divi- 
sion of its left gave way. The flanking columns of the enemy were 
steadily making headway toward the retreating trains of the army 
on the turnpike toward Middletown. The situation was ominous of 
a terrible disaster and Sheridan was twenty miles away. 

Everything depended now upon the old Sixth Corps, which had 
saved so many a field. It was swung from its position on the right, 
into a line facing the left attack of the enemy, and took its ground 
near the summit of a slight bare ridge, across which the shells 
from the rebel batteries came plowing thickly. Twice the enemy 
charged its line and were driven back after a desperate encounter, 
hand to hand. Then the men were ordered to lie down upon the 
slope. General Bidwell sat erect upon his horse, a few paces behind 
his prostrate brigade, as cool as tho the storm of fire and death was 
not playing around him. Colonel Selkirk, of his stafif, sat near. A 
shell had dropped and exploded among the men a little distance 
down the line, and they both were intently looking to see what 
fatal work it had done. At that instant he was struck down. A 
passing shell had torn his left shoulder away and hurled him, 
unconscious, to the ground. The lightning could not have been 
swifter or more noiseless in its stroke. His companion heard noth- 
ing but one moan, and turned to find the General stretched upon 
the earth. His riderless horse stood still, as tho it had not felt the 
emptying of its saddle. 

Tender hands raised up the mutilated and insensible form and 
bore it back to a hospital in the rear. The dying soldier revived 
after a time from his swoon, and the surgeons told him that he had 
not long to live. He said calmly that he had expected that it was 
so, and l)egan with composure to prepare for his parting with 
earthly things. His grief at the prospect of death seemed to be 



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not for himself, but for his wife. Among the first of his thoughts 
was to ask that a little colored boy — one of the homeless waifs of 
the war — who had been his servant for some time, should be sent 
to Buffalo, and committed to the care of his family and friends. The 
few directions that he had to leave were briefly given, for he was 
in mortal agony from the first. But his mind was steadily cleai 
except in the short intervals when strong opiates gave him sleep. 
And thus he lay thru the slow hours of nearly half of a day wait- 
ing for the gates of the other life to open. 

And while he lingered there, out at the front, the tide of dis- 
aster which had borne him down was being rolled back, by a pow- 
erful hand, in a mighty wave of overwhelming victory. Sheridan 
had come with his electric presence and the resistless force of his 
indomitable will, and had saved the day. And, so haply, there 
shone around the bed of the dying soldier, before he died the glories 
of a surpassing triumph for the cause which he had loved better 
than his life. 

The last that he is remembered to have said to the one who stood 
by him to the end were : '' I have tried to do my duty." The 
thought of duty was his last, I am sure, because it had been the 
thought of his life. He did it always as men do who try. 

I do not know what legend has been inscribed upon these monu- 
mental stones, but I hope that the chisel has written the simple, 
touching and true words of his own dying testimony, that 

" He tried to do his duty." 



100 History of the 49th Regiment 

THE HOME-COMING OF THE 49th REGIMENT IN 1865 

Address of Colonel George Holden Selkirk at the Memorial Services for 

General Daniel Davidson Bidwell held in Buffalo, New York, 

October 19, 1914. 

Over fifty years ago a number of boys were adopted into a 
branch of the Bidwell Family and the few of us who are left feel 
that we are entitled to a share of the honors and glory that are 
enjoyed by the family as a whole. The head of the family to which 
we belonged was a man for whom we had the greatest respect, and 
we came to look up to him as children to a father, and when he 
was taken away we mourned his loss as children mourn the loss of 
a parent. 

On Saturday I received a copy of the program of exercises at this 
gathering — this program was sent by Miss Grace Carew Sheldon, 
who is the guardian angel of the veterans hereabouts, and who 
seems desirous of keeping them in view as long as they last. In 
the list, the subject given to me to speak upon was '' The Home- 
coming of the 49tli Regiment in 1865." I have not had time to 
look up dates or any particular details of that trip. 

On leaving the cars at the station on Exchange Street, we 
marched up Main Street, escorted by the 74th Regiment. I remem- 
ber that we did not present a very stylish appearance — some of 
the men wearing the regular army cap, others slouch hats, and I 
am not certain that there were not straw hats to be seen. But we 
were coming home. We marched to Fort Porter, whence we had 
started four years previous. In one of the buildings on the grounds 
we found a gathering of ladies and gentlemen who had come there 
to welcome us, and who had prepared a very liberal repast, which, 
after having listened to a few remarks, we did justice to. 

I had intended to say only a few words, and those in regard to 
General Ridwell's indifference to self in times of excitement and 
danger. His last words were — " Tell them " — meaning his family 
and friends at home — " Tell them I have tried to do my duty." 

On leaving the vicinity of Washington in the spring of 1862 we 
were taken down to Fortress Monroe and started on a march for 
Richmond. There was some interference on the part of the 



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enemy, but finally we got fairly started for the goal. On coming 
to within four or five hours walk of Richmond, we halted, went 
into camp, and dug a rifle pit a few yards in front. It seems that 
quite a heavy line had been drawn by the enemy between us and 
the City of Richmond, and the commanding general apparently 
thought it best to wait awhile before trying to go any farther. We 
were occasionally treated to a fire of shells from the other side. 

One evening while we were discussing our rations for supper an 
order came to " fall in," which was done promptly. As a strong 
attack had been made on the right of our line, it was apparent that 
we were to be sent over in that direction, and just as the regiment 
was about starting to march, there was a shower of shells scat- 
tered over us, and the word was given " back to the rifle pits." We 
were under the heaviest fire we had experienced up to that time, 
and obeying this last order with unusual alacrity, we took to the 
rifle pits and made ourselves as small as possible. The storm kept 
up for awhile, but during it all the Colonel walked leisurely back 
and forth, from one end of the regiment to the other, seemingly as 
cool as he would be on a drill room floor, and perfectly indifferent 
to the danger to which he was exposed. 

After the Battle of Fort Stevens, in front of Washington, where 
the Colonel had command of the brigade which made the charge on 
the enemy, and where he made sure of the star of a brigadier gen- 
eral, we followed General Early into Virginia, and at one time, 
went into camp near Charlestown, where John Brown was exe- 
cuted. One morning we were surprised by sudden firing on our 
front. General Bidwell mounted his horse, his staff following him. 
We rode thru a strip of woods, a few yards in front of which was 
a rifle pit, and beyond a broad field. It appeared that a section of 
one of our batteries, and one belonging to the enemy, were engaged 
in an artillery duel. Following the lead of General Bidwell, we 
rode up to our guns while shells from the other side were coming 
towards us very lively. Of course our party added very much to 
the size of the target, and I confess. that I feU somewhat relieved 
when General Bidwell turned his horse and rode off in the other 
direction; but after going a short distance, he agjain turned and 
rode back to the battery. This program was repeated three or 



102 History of the 49th Regiment 

four times, until the artillerymen appeared to get tired and quit. 
At the time General Bidwell was killed at the Battle of Cedar 
Creek he was close to his line of battle, where the enemy had a 
very accurate range for their artillery. 

It was always the same where the men under his command were 
engaged. He seemed to consider it his duty to be on that part of 
the line where the fire was the hottest. General Bidwell was one 
of a number of regimental, brigade and division commanders in the 
Sixth Corps who contributed very largely to the reputation of that 
corps for reliability — men who could be depended upon to do the 
right thing, even when no superior officer was at hand to give 
orders. General Bidwell, at one time in the Wilderness, received 
from General Sedgwick, commander of the Sixth Corps, the title 
of " The Man of Iron." 

The following two poems were written by John D. Wells of 
Buffalo, New York, and read by him at the memorial services for 
General Daniel Davidson Bidwell, on October 19, 1914: 

A SOLDIER'S GRAVE 

They laid him away in the orchard; that's all that we'll ever know; 
That's all that his comrades told us an' I'm kind o* glad it's so — 
I'm glad that we don't remember the battle an' wound an' pain, 

But only the grave in the orchard grass 

That waves in the blossom rain. 

" We laid him away in the orchard " was all that his comrades said : 
Nor gives us that lief to sorrow or mourn for our soldier dead, 
But only the pain of partin', the thoughts of his far off mound, 
An' him with his hands crossed — thataway — 
An' the Old Flag wrapped around. 

They laid him away in the orchard; that's mebbe the reason why 
I like to set in the gloamin' in the orchard here an' try 
To picture him a-sleepin' in the orchard there, the sound 

Of drums an' bugles an' war fergot, 

An' the pink bloom all around. 

That's why, when it's Decoration an' the vets tromp up an' down, 

I ruther stay with feelin's an' never go off to town — 

To dream of the place he's sleepin', the grave 'neath the flowered limb, 

Where every day that the blossons fall, 

It's Memorial Day for him ! 



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THE VANISHING TROOPS 
'* Reveille ! " 

From out the deep, gray mists of other days 
You come again, your tattered flags upraise ; 
No roll of drums, no scream of martial fife, 
No glint of arms, no hint of hate or strife, 
No hissing shell, no boom of hostile gun. 
But only peace, the peace your victory won. 

" Fall In ! " 

Form slowly now, and not as once you did 
When war's alarms beset you and forbid 
The lagging step! But let the drum beat slow. 
With less of vim than in the Long Ago; 
For sturdy limbs, that bore you thru the fray, 
Are tremulous with weight of years to-day. 

" Eyes Front ! " 

Those dimming eyes that saw the battle smokes 
Of countless fields — that roved from red Fair Oaks 
To war's grim end, and saw the woe and pain, 
The sacrifice of suffering and slain 
In Freedom's cause! Nor chide the tears that well 
As all comes back thru Memory's magic spell. 

"Roll Call!" 

Most sad of all that e'en the brave must die! 

So many called and yet so few reply! 

So many lost from noble ranks that fought. 

So many names of comrades long forgot! 

And yet — who knows? — perhaps they hover near 

In spirit form and softly answer " Here ! " 

" Break Ranks ! " 

You go from us, and vanish one by one, 

Your faith kept true and all your service donel 

And as you go to take your honored posts 

With comrades there of gray and blue-clad hosts. 

You take our love and trust that ever will 

God's blessing rests upon you! Soldiers still 1 



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Chapter XII 

SERGEANT ALEXANDER H. McKELVY'S REPORT OF HIS CAP- 
TURE BY THE CONFEDERATES, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863 

AFTER THE Battle OF GETTYSBURG General Meade moved the 
Army of the Potomac to the Rappahannock River, and the 
Sixth Corps lay at Golden Church, near Warrenton, Vir- 
ginia, till September 15th, when the first of the " forward and back" 
movements was put into history. We slept at Sulphur Springs that 
night and on the morning of the 16th crossed the river by pontoon 
bridge, the Third Corps leading the march, and about sundown 
went into camp near Stonehouse Mountain, not far from Culpepper 
Court House, and before we could '' build coffee " four companies 
of my regiment, 49th New York Volunteers, were ordered to go 
on picket, my company, K, being one of the number and altho I 
had one full year yet to serve that was my last picket with the old 
army, but I knew it not. We marched and countermarched and 
floundered thru cornfields and woods until about midnight when 
the line was finally established, but alas ! for the wisdom of our 
officers, it was a badly botched job as the story will unfold. 

I think the post of which I as sergeant had charge, consisting 
of five men, was the extreme left wing of the corps picket line, 
because no guards were beyond us, so our flank was " in the air " 
and we in an exposed position. However, we were not disturbed in 
the night, for Lee's army upon Meade's approach had fallen back on 
the Rapidan. Not knowing that we had reached the end of our 
journey and expecting to march in the morning, we boys were up 
betimes, ate our fireless breakfast, then drew the charges from our 
guns and cleaned them out in good shape. 

Shortly after daylight our Major, William Ellis, came cantering 
gaily along the woods road, which was romantic enough for a 
lovers' walk had not its beauty and silence been invaded by " grim 
visaged war," and halted at our post. 

" Sergeant," he said in his hoarse voice. " we find that there is 
a gap of some two miles between the picket line of the Third and 



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Sixth Corps which was open all night. I am going out to correct 
the lines, my objective point is Hudson's Mills, and I wish you to 
take another man with you, see that your guns are well loaded, 
follow me at the double-quick and if you hear any firing, hasten to 
my assistance." And then he cantered away from us, disappearing 
in the Virginia forest, and I never set eyes on the " Kanuck" major 
again. I requested Nick Wagner, a Company D boy, to accompany 
me, and leaving our well- furnished knapsacks and dog tents lying 
on the ground in charge of the remaining three men, we shouldered 
our muskets and turned our faces towards the wilderness under 
orders to follow and support the officer of the day beyond the lines 
toward the enemy. 

As for me, I never saw my traps, comrades or regiment again. 
Major Ellis joined our regiment at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York, 
when it was filling up, then called the Second Buffalo, the 21st New 
York Volunteers, under Colonel Rogers, having preceded it to the 
front. This was a two years regiment and was mustered out in 
1863. But the 49th Regiment was not mustered out until the end 
of the war. I do not know whether Major Ellis raised any men or 
not, but there was a camp rumor afloat among the men that he had 
taken some sort of leave from one of Her Majesty's rifle regiments 
in Canada in order to see service in the war between the states. He 
was second lieutenant in Company E, commanded by Captain 
Reuben E. Heacock. Later he was promoted to captain of Com- 
pany C, and in December, 1862, he was promoted major of the 
regiment. It was his great delight to break loose from the monoton- 
ous round of camp life and go on a scouting trip beyond the lines 
in pursuit of adventure and pleasure, for it was rumored that he 
was not averse to the charms of the fair sex. He was always well 
mounted and on this occasion he rode a powerful black horse, fleet 
of foot, and able to extricate his dare devil master from any diffi- 
culty he might plunge into. 

We boys at the outset were so eager to obey orders that we did 
not stop to see that our guns were well loaded, but while on the 
dog-trot in order to save time we loaded, and thereby made a 
serious mistake, for had we loaded with the regulation cartridges, 
powder and ball, the result in my case would have been far dift"erent, 
as you shall see before I finish this tale. We used what was called 



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by the boys the " beeswax " cartridge, which required no biting to 
break the package, but they were not sure to explode as we found to 
our great sorrow that day. 

Now we knew no more concerning the locality of Hudson's Mills 
than we did of Heaven, but we followed the tracks of the major's 
horse for a short distance till we came to a small branch where 
the trail was split, one part crossing the stream and the other 
continued up the left bank, and, having lost the horse tracks, crossed 
the creek and trotted along in those beautiful woods until we 
debouched on a forest road, striking it at a right angle. 

Here we noticed with some considerable surprise that the road 
was cut up by a body of horse which had but recently passed, as 
the tracks were freshly cut in the damp soil. Which way now to 
Hudson's Mills, and had the major encountered this " critter com- 
pany " of Stuart's cavalry ? And if so, who came out best ? 

All these points were duly canvassed with my little Dutch 
comrade, then we went to the right-hand on a hazard. Soon we 
emerged from the forest into the bright sunlight of a warm Septem- 
ber day, and the sun felt hot to two innocent boys who had been 
making a fast march in an earnest endeavor to keep pace with a 
fast horse ridden by a reckless rider. Here was an opening of a 
few acres in the pines, and we saw the road pass into a small valley, 
cross the branch and ascend a small hill, on the summit of which 
it disappeared into a gloomy forest. 

It was about eleven o'clock when we stopped near the stream and 
turned into the bushes to gather some tempting looking thimble 
berries, for we were hungry after our rapid change of base, and 
when was it ever known that boys could pass a berry patch without 
levying a toll ? Then with our guns at right shoulder shift we pushed 
up the slope and soon came abreast of an old log bam, from which 
came sounds of grinding and low voices of men. Now wild 
thoughts ran thru our minds whether the grinding was on the 
peaceful scythe or the warlike saber, and gruesome tales of bush- 
whackers came surging under our army hats. 

Just then we spied a small lad perched on a gate post and as his 
eyes bugged out at the sight of the blue-coated Yanks, we concluded 
we were pioneers in that wild section, for there was not a dwelling 
in sight. 



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I plied the young Johnny with questions thus, " Sonny, have you 
seen a Yankee on a black horse with a saber on the saddle pass 
here this morning? " " No." " Have any men on horses passed? " 
"Yes." "Which way were they going?" "That way," pointing 
to a pine-crowned hill. Then the vital qustion last. " Johnny, what 
was the color of the soldiers' clothes? " " Oh, gray! " " I thought 
so," said I, and " Now, Nick, I think we will find it to our interest 
to retrace our steps." 

So we went back quite rapidly until we reached the junction of the 
roads and this time we took the other end of it, and traveled east 
with hope in our breasts. " And now for the Mills and the major, for 
we're all right now." Soon we left the woods and came in sight 
of a charming landscape, and " Can it be? Yes, Nick, there's a 
mill pond; the Mills at last; didn't I tell you?" 

Down the road we trudged at a good gait and soon came up 
against a stone fence which stood in front of a row of cottages 
where the road turned square to the right. We noticed some women 
in the door yards, and they were dividing their attention between 
us and something absorbing away to their left, where the road made 
an upward turn after crossing below the dam, and evidently they 
were nervous. I stepped up to the garden wall and made an inquiry 
of a woman with regard to the missing major, but she had not seen 
him and I asked no more questions, but now the entire colony, white 
and black, women and children, but not a man in sight, seemed 
to be in the open air, and much interested in the advance of the 
Yankees. 

As we were attracting much attention we moved on, and as 
we were going up a narrow lane I saw, just ahead on my left, a low 
house behind which was a black horse tied, and a saber on the 
saddle. " Look, Nick, there is the major's horse, and he is in tlie 
house buzzing with the women as usual." " Oh, we're surely right 
this time." Were we? As we moved confidently up that lane to 
join Ellis and report our arrival, we saw an unusual commotion 
behind the low cabin, for just then there dashed out a fellow on a 
horse, and out of the heel of my eye I saw two other " butternuts " 
mounted and going like " Jehu " in the opposite direction, well down 
over their horses' necks as if they feared a volley. 



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Well, this did not look much like finding the major, but it did 
take on an air of business, with signs of something doing in " Old 
Virginny." " Mr. Johnny " was seated on a low black broncho 
short of limb, and as the rider had the appearance of being six feet 
two or three inches in height, his feet nearly touched the ground 
as he advanced to the combat. 

I repressed a desire to laugh at his ludicrous figure, for well I 
knew this encounter would result in something more than a line 
of comedy before the curtain was rung down on the last act. His 
face was sallow, his hair long, his dress was of the usual shade, about 
the color of a ploughed field ; but the gentleman from " Nawth 
Cahlina, suh," was " heeled '' — no allusion to " tar " — in a scandal- 
ously munificent manner, for he had a carbine, saber and six- 
barrelled pistol. I had a Springfield musket with one shot and that 
a " patent fraud." 

As he bravely dashed out from cover he gave us the usual current 

salutation, "Halt, you Yankee!" We obeyed orders by 

halting and bringing our guns to the shoulder, and then I replied 
in the usual manner, " Halt yourself and see how you like it." And 
then the fight was on in earnest. Like one the three weapons 
sounded, but no report, as they all failed to explode the cap, and 
now all he had to do was to pull, if his pistol was a self-cocking 
one, and another barel was ready for business, while I had to bring 
my piece from the aim to my side, pull back the hammer, remove 
the defective cap, open a cap box at belt, extract, place and press 
down on nipple a fresh cap, then aim. I worked fast with Libby 
Prison yawning for me and was just raising the depressed muzzle 
of the gim, when bang went his pistol and something had struck 
my left leg below the knee, and it was powerless and paralyzed up 
to my body in one second of time. I felt myself falling, the impact 
of the ball against the bone forcing me nearly one-half way around, 
but 1 made up my mind that I would not fall prone in the dirt if I 
could prevent it, so by a quick movement I brought my gun around 
and thrust it in the ground and thus supported I managed to arrest 
my fall. As 1 had but one leg left to stand on, with the aid of my 
piece I twisted around and again faced my friend in gray. 

And now I had to balance on my good right leg and at the same 
time bring my gun to bear on him, and thus swaying to the right 








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and to the left, i tinally pulled the trigger and she cracked. When 
the smoke lifted 1 saw his little horse whirling around like a dog 
ready to lie down, and my thought was that 1 missed him and struck 
the animal, but the next moment that hope was dispelled, for out of 
the top of the tree under which we had halted, there came trickling 
down a small shower of leaves, showing that my bullet had gone wide 
of the mark. And just then he having been reinforced by another 
Johnny, who had remained behind the house to bridle his horse, a 
lengthy operation, came charging down on us with carbine in place 
and saber drawn. Not wishing in my helpless state to be ridden 
into the dust I dropped my gun, threw up my hands and said: " We 
surrender." Mr. Puckett, for that was his name, rode his horse 
nearly on me, with his saber raised over my head, said, " Hand up 
that ar gun," which with much difficulty I did. Then, " Hand up that 
cartridge box," and then, " Have you ary side arms?" Then grow- 
ing nervous and wrathy he said, " Be lively now, as I suspect there's 
a lot of you'uns out here and I ain't going to be captured if I 
know it." 

I assured him we were the only two we knew of, except our 
major who could not be found. Then a great noise rose near us 
and we saw the other horseman trying to persuade Nick with his 
saber to surrender to the Confederacy and notwithstanding some 
ornate swearing and threats that were awful, Nick stood like the 
Rock of Gibralter, strongly intrenched behind a little thombush in 
the ditch, with two cartridges in his gun — for it had failed the 
second time — and his gun in position of charge bayonet with the 
bayonet in its scabbard. I said, " Nick, give up your gun. we've got 
to cave," and then he quit his resistance, the battle was over and 
the South had won. 

Then Puckett broke out again and ordered me to turn about and 
double-quick back to the first house as he feared capture by our 
men, and when for obvious reasons I hesitated, he said with an 
oath, " Pve a good mind to split you down," and at the same time 
making a demonstration with his saber. Then I got mad at such 
inhuman treatment and blazed out at him with, " Split and be 
hanged to you, I can't double-quick as I am wounded." At this 
he softened and said, " I did not know I hit you." " Yes," I said. 



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" I have a bullet in the leg." " Well get back to the house the 
best you can and I'll get a boss to take you to camp." 

So I called Nick and throwing my left arm over his shoulders I 
used him for a crutch and thus supported hopped on my good leg 
back to where we saw the women. 

My army brogan was full of blood and it spurting at every step. 
Things began to turn blue, then black, and just as I reached some 
steps at the stone wall I saw a pail containing water and a tin cup, 
and I had the sense and spunk to scoop up a pint of that cold 
water drawn from the bottom of a deep well, and drink for my life. 
Oh ! the " nectar of the gods " could not be mentioned in the same 
day with that sparkling, life-giving water, and it saved me from 
the humiliation of a tip over before all those Johnnies. 

Then my captor, wishing to tie up the wound and stop the flow 
of blood, asked for my handkerchief. I thrust my hand within my 
blouse, but it was gone and I recalled that when I unbuckled my 
belt it must have slipped down in the road; but the kind woman 
who had provided the water now brought out some cloths in 
obedience to the request of Puckett, one of which he tied above 
the bullet hole as a torniquet to shut off the flow of blood. Next 
he asked one of the farmers to bring out a horse, and when the 
farmer mumbled something, Puckett said, " Pll not ask you again," 
placing his hand on his pistol, so a saddle horse was brought. I 
was helped into the saddle, the small horseman took the lead, I 
went next, Nick walked behind my horse and Puckett brought 
up the rear. We went back over the road, past the berry patch and 
the log barn, and when we reached the crest of the pine hill, Puckett 
said to me, " Our regiment camped here this morning and are now 
on their way to the river." So when we two innocents were at 
the log cabin we were within one-fourth of a mile of a regiment of 
Confederate cavalry, and we barely missed a squadron of them fall- 
ing back from a scouting trip to join the regiment then about to 
march. Puckett sent word ahead to halt the regiment as he had 
some Yankee prisoners, one of whom was wounded, and as we were 
climbing a long hill Puckett remarked, " Sergeant, just turn your 
boss and look back." 

I saw about two miles in our rear a city of tents on the side 
of the mountain. "You know who them soldiers is?" "No," I 



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answered him. " Them's SedgAvick's men." And as I g-azed on the 
camp of the old Sixth Corps on Stonehouse Mountain for the last 
time, my eves filled with tears, for I had a brother and many good 
comrades there, and I was being carried away from them perhaps 
never to see them more. My heart was heavy and sad, but I soon 
saw something that brightened me up a bit. and as you will never 
guess what it is, I will tell you. 

Puckett said, " Why there's the major." Well, I jumped in the 
saddle for, I thought, the lost major at last, and a prisoner too, 
but it was the major of the 2d North Carolina Cavalry whom I now 
beheld and not Bill Ellis. 

Let me trj' to describe that gentleman. He sat on his steed on a 
high bank at the roadside, evidently awaiting our approach. He 
was dressed from his drooping plume to his silver spurs in as fine 
a United States uniform as I ever saw on any officer, not excepting 
a general. He was a handsome man, probably a West Pointer, and 
on his head he wore a United States army hat, looped up at one 
side with a fine metal ornament, and a long black plume which 
drooped over one shoulder, a fine blue uniform coat with brass 
buttons, azure blue trousers, gold-corded at the seams, a great 
blue cape overcoat reaching well below the knees, long thigh boots, 
well polished, with spurs at heels, long gauntlet riding gloves, fine 
belt, etc., and his horse, a beautiful animal, was splendidly 
caparisoned. 

As we rode up and saluted he doffed his hat and returned the 
salute, as if I had been General Sedgwick, and remarked, " Good 
morning, Sergeant. I am sorry to learn that you are wounded, but 
such is the fortune of war. I have sent word to detain an ambulance 
for you to ride in, and we will take good care of you." 

" Good morning-." And then he cantered gracefully away to his 
troops and we followed at a walk. Shortly we came up where they 
were halted in the narrow road, one file in the left ditch and the 
other in the right, the buttocks of the horses being very close 
together, and as we threaded our way thru that narrow lane of 
men and animals, my poor swollen and inflamed leg got many a 
shock, and to add to my discomfort those men made abusive and 
insulting remarks as I ran the gauntlet, and they said to Puckett, 

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"Why didn't you kill the Yank?" *' I'd never took the trouble to 
bring that thing in." 

And similar brotherly remarks. Said Puckett, sotto voce, as we 
crowded thru the ranks, " Don't mind them, they don't bite." But 
I wondered why I was assailed by regular soldiers, for we expected 
and generally received fairly good treatment from them in contrast 
to that received from guerillas and bushwackers. On inquiry I 
learned that the fact of my shooting at Puckett after he had wounded 
me had gone ahead of me, and it appeared the act was regarded as 
a sort of crime that could not be overlooked by those rude fellows, 
hence the impromptu reception accorded me. At the head of the 
regiment I was placed in the " avalanch " as it was called, which 
was an old canvas covered market wagon, hauled by a span of 
mules and driven by a black man. It contained a general assort- 
ment of articles from cornstalks for the mules to a skillet for frying 
meat. 

Also a pet woodchuck and a sick nigger, for society, I presume, 
on the march. The wretched trails over which we passed were 
called roads by courtesy and good only in spots, and when we came 
to a " branch " it generally was at the bottom of a deep gully with 
steep sides both ways, and when descending everything in the 
wagon would avalanch to the front end, and pulling up the slope 
everything would swoop back to the tail board, forward and back 
at each branch, and it served to vary the prison life, in a measure. 
My recollection is that we camped one night in the wilderness, and 
the cavalrymen and their horses were living ofif the cornfields as 
they had no rations of any description. On the last day's journey 
we stopped at a farm house, and I was told I could get a good dinner 
there, and being very hungry after two days' fasting, I did ample 
justice to the fine meal they brought to the wagon, which included 
chicken, green corn and many other good things, cooked by some 
fine old colored mammy, I " reckon," and I paid a dollar for the 
feast. A smart shower fell while I was dining table de bote, de 
wagon, which laid the dust on the road, and that evening we joined 
Jeb Stuart's cavalry division and camped in a fine grove at Liberty 
Mills on the Rapidan, where I spent my second night with the 
Confederates. The sudden advance of the Army of the Potomac 



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had caused General Lee to place his forces along the banks of the 
river, and I saw them building rifle pits when I crossed the river. 
I had a good supper including fresh beef, and then slept between 
my two captors. The next morning Puckett asked permission of 
his captain to deliver me at Orange Court House, so I was mounted 
once more and we forded the river, which was very low. We saw 
many Southern soldiers working on the defences preparing for a 
possible attack. Soon we left the river behind us, and as we were 
climbing a long hill we were overtaken by a party of horsemen, 
whom we took to be from Richmond, some of them perhaps, con- 
nected with the Confederate government. They were all well 
dressed, wearing tall light fur hats with black bands, and seemed 
to be of an inquisitive turn of mind. One of them took a warm 
interest in the Yankee prisoner for he rode by my side for a con- 
siderable distance and was very friendly. Evidently he thought he 
had struck a mine of information from Union sources, in the sinooth 
faced Northern lad, but I am inclined to think the information he 
received did not materially afifect the subsequent conduct of the war. 
He greeted me courteously and after an allusion to my misfortune, 
he opened his question battery on me with great spirit. 

*' Eh, by the way, what part of the army do you belong to, 
soldier? " and " Ah, yes. now about how many men are there in the 
Potomac army?" "Really, I don't know." "Well, you say you 
belong to the Sixth Corps, can you tell me how many men Sedg- 
wick has?" "No, sir, I could not." "You have no idea of the 
strength of your own corps, even," in a somewhat sarcastic manner. 
" I am not in a position to know the number of fighting men as 
I am not in the Adjutant General's Department." " Ah. yes, I see," 
and then abruptly. "What is Meade out here for at this time?" 
" Really, I could not say as I am not in the counsels of the com- 
mander, being but a common soldier in the ranks." He apologized 
in a weak way ; then they spurred up the hill and left us. 

The fellow tried to pump me and I turned agnostic, and while I 
knew the strength of my corps, and approximately the strength of 
the armv, I did not propose to furnish any information for the JefT 
Davis gang at Richmond. 

By this time we were nearing Orange Court House and the first 
building we saw was a schoolhouse which stood on sloping ground. 



114 History of the 49th Regiment 

and the playground was leveled up and held in place by high stone 
walls which, at that time were covered by young schoolboys who 
gave us a warm and hilarious reception as we rode past. 

"Hey, Yank, whar you uns gwine?" " Gwine to Richmond 
hain't ye?" "How ju like it fars you gone?" and other choice bits 
of fine English, We came to the town pump in the middle of the 
street, and the fever in my wound gave me a mighty thirst so 
Puckett gave me a big cupful of cold water which put new life in me. 

He turned me over to the authorities, and I took leave of my 
captor whom I had come to like as a comrade, altho we had a few 
days before tried hard to kill each other. That was characteristic 
of rank and file, for they became friends and fellow soldiers. 
Puckett told me in a conversation previous to this, that when his 
pistol snapped he held it on my breast, but as we boys showed a 
pretty brave front he resolved he would not kill me, but would 
" wing " me and put me out of service. He was a North Carolina 
mountaineer, and that he could ride and shoot I had conclusive evi- 
dence for he shot me in the leg with a pistol while sitting on his 
pony at a distance of say, the length of a town square in Warren, 
which is four hundred and sixty-six feet. He also told me he had 
carried " that ar gun for two years " and had never known it to 
miss " afore " and added he was mighty glad it missed. He let me 
handle the weapon and I noted it was English, Carr's patent, and 
the cartridge was also English, Eley's patent, and the pistol was a 
" six shooter " and about the same size and caliber as our Colt's 
navy revolver. 

If he was glad he had missed killing me, I was no less glad of 
that fact and I told him we were both fortunate and glad over the 
skirmish, for he said my minnie ball was a very close one to his ear. 
Query. If he could get mc in the leg, as he did, what show of 
escape had I with his pistol bearing on my breast, and if with but 
one leg to stand on I gave him a close call, what chance would he 
have had if my gun had not failed? It must have been that our 
unworthy lives were spared by One greater than any mere army 
commander. 

William Raoull Puckett, Company B, 2d North Carolina Cavalry, 
was a brave soldier in a mistaken cause, for altho he was but one 



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of four on that picket post, one of whom was a sergeant, he rode out 
alone and faced us without hesitation. 

He and I swapped pocket knives, greenbacks, bluebacks, and per- 
haps graybacks, who knows, and I presented him with my silver 
Greek cross from the front of my army hat which he admired and 
asked questions about, and so the blue and the gray of the North 
and South. Pennsylvania and North Carolina, met, fought and 
parted, never again to meet in this world. I was placed in an empty 
building, a common board structure facing the main street, as if it 
might have been built for a store and as it contained nothing but a 
pile of clean straw, I was not embarrassed with the care of fine 
furniture. There was a guard at the only door of the place to 
prevent my escape and attack on the rear of Lee's army, my meals 
were brought in and placed on the floor near my pile of straw which 
I occupied all the time as I could not move about the room. Once 
I head the jingling of accoutrements made by a body of horsemen, 
and I called out, "Guard, who are those men passing?" "General 
Lee and his stafif on their way to the front." How I regretted that 
I had not five minutes notice of their approach, for I would have 
crawled across that rough floor to the door to have a look at Robert 
Lee and his stafif. The one night I slept there was a sharp Septem- 
ber one, and as I was thinly clad I felt the cold keenly as I burrowed 
deeper in my straw couch. I w^as visited here by a Confederate 
surgeon who probed my leg for the ball, and this was done by army 
surgeons from where I joined the cavalry all the way to Richmond, 
and I may add that none of them located the bullet that maimed me 
for life. 

On the second evening I was placed in a fine ambulance car on 
the train for Richmond, with a few other prisoners, and on arriving 
at the Confederate capital about eleven p. m. I was removed and 
placed in another old '' avalanch " then over the col)blestone pave- 
ments thru a fog that might have been cut in chunks and sold for 
ice, to the magnificent Hotel de Libby, where I was put up for a 
week. 

I was carried in on a stretcher and placed on a cot, and made as 
comfortable as circumstances would permit. Our nurses were able 
bodied Union soldiers detailed for that purpose, and they were kind 



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and faithful and showed much interest in our care. The old place 
was full of vermin, the beds were literally black with body lice, and 
every morning the floor was mopped and flooded to try and drown 
the brutes. 

The food supplied was not well suited to the appetite of a wounded 
man, who was very feverish. It consisted of good wheat loaf bread, 
a soup made of meat and rice, with stewed dried peaches sadly in 
need of a worm specific, for dessert. 

I rather think I might have starved but for the advent of a dear 
matronly black mammie, who came in the hospital every day with 
a wooden bucket on her turbaned head with new fresh buttermilk 
churned, she said, by her young mistress in the city. As I was a 
farmer boy and very fond of buttermilk, I gladly bought this delight- 
ful food beverage and paid fifty cents a quart, Confederate money, 
of which I had a fair supply, as I had exchanged with Puckett at a 
ratio of twenty to one. Breaking the bread in the milk I fared 
sumptuously, and the milk was very cooling and soothing to my 
feverish blood and nerves. 

One morning a lot of doctors came in to look me over and get 
the bullet out of my leg, and among the young army surgeons was 
an old citizen doctor of the city whom I learned was always brought 
in when they had a particularly difficult case of Yankee carving 
on the board. Well, they went at me with a full case of " carpenter " 
tools, and they were in a shamefully dull condition, and no anes- 
thetics to give me, so I may say I had a very bad half hour. They 
made an incision thru the bullet hole some five or six inches in 
length, then the old butcher inserted three fingers and explored to 
the right and then reversed and fingered to the left, evidently think- 
ing the Ijall had gone l)etween the bones of the leg. 

1 think if I had had a silver dollar between my teeth during that 
torture. I could easily have changed it into quarter dollars, but I 
didn't break down before those Johnnies and I was thankful for 
that. Two days later the boss carver came back and tackled the 
other side of my leg and laid open the calf to the bone as if he had 
thought the l)all had passed thru or around the bone. 

This operation did not hurt quite so much, and I was getting so 
I rather enjoyed it by this time, but I did not forget the sensation 



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caused by those dull knives on the rolling nuiscles of the calf, as he 
forced his way by main strength to the bone. I was told by our 
boys that the old doctor was making a collection of Yankee relics, 
so I imagine he was disappointed when he did not find the ball. 

One night the welcome news came floating in that a flag of truce 
boat had arrived at City Point, and an exchange of prisoners of war 
would be made ; and we all felt gay at the prospect of " Johnny 
marching home," but alas ! for our hopes, for 1 was told that I was 
too badly wounded to be sent to our lines, and a captain with a 
thigh amputation was to be left with me, both to be eaten up of 
vermin and the dreaded gangrene, if we remained in that pest house 
long, not to speak of possible death resulting from our serious 
wounds. 

So I lay the victim of dark despair as I thought 1 could see my 
finish far from home and friends, but just as the last man had been 
carried out at about two p. m. in rushed our nurses saying " The 
orders are that every man must go and the hospital cleaned out." 
" Hooray for us," I cried and I felt like getting up and dancing on 
one leg. Well, the boys got the poor, almost unconscious, captain 
ready, and fished out and pulled on to me the bloody blue trousers, 
put on blouse and hat, picked me up and out again into the James 
River fog, into the old market wagon once more, the mules were 
whipped up and and it was goodbye Libby to the tune of " The 
Girl I Left Behind Me." 

I saw Libby just thirty years later in Chicago at the Columbian 
Exposition, walked all over it with my family and picked out as 
nearly as I could the spot where my cot had stood, and it was 
between the picture of Grant and Sherman as they hung on the wall 
of the old tobacco warehouse. Over the cobblestones to the station 
where we were placed in box cattle cars, 1 was laid softly on the floor, 
and away towards liberty down thru Petersburg to City Point, and 
as I was carried on a stretcher from car to l)oat, I caught a glimpse 
of " Old Glory " floating from the flag staff of the steamer where 
it lay below the bluiT, and the sight was so delicious that my eyes 
were filled with tears of genuine joy and gladness. 

I have forgotten to say that I never saw Nick Wagner after we 
joined the cavalry, but he was taken to Richmond and placed on 



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Belle Isle and later exchanged and it was some twenty-five to thirty 
years before I set eyes on him again at a Reunion of the old regi- 
ment at Jamestown, New York. When he was captured he was a 
smooth faced young fellow, and I had to pierce the disguise of a full 
beard and dark hair, but I soon had him by the hand and was intro- 
duced to his wife, who accompanied him from Cleveland, where he 
now lives surrounded by his family. 

I was carried below on the boat and placed on a clean cot, then 
was given a good meal of such food as I could eat and digest; the 
surgeons looked me over, and we steamed down the James past 
scenes of former campaigns, 'Harrison's Landing, Yorktown, New- 
port News, Hampton, Fortress Monroe, and up the historic Potomac, 
until we tied up at the wharf at Annapolis, Maryland. Here we were 
carried into the grounds of the Naval Academy which had been 
given over to be one vast general hospital, and a most delightful 
spot it was in which to nurse the boys back to health and strength 
for further service. /\11 of our wounded were placed in large 
tents with board floors, and all others in the brick buildings. 

I was given a delicious bath, clothed in a red flannel shirt donated 
by the Sanitary Commission, and then settled in a clean cot bed, and 
I was in Paradise. 

As there was a ship load of us dumped on the hospital people the 
excitement among the staf¥, nurses and helpers was something 
great, but in a few hours order was restored and we settled down 
for many months of a long drawn out convalescence in the hands of 
our good and Ijountiful Uncle Samuel. 



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Chapter XIII 

AN AMUSING INCIDENT IN CAMP LIFE 

By Sherman Williams, of New York City 

WHILE THE 49th Regiment was at Camp Griffin in Fair- 
fax County, Virginia, an amusing incident occurred, 
showing the quick wit of Private Richard Greenman of 
Company G. 

When in camp, it was always the duty of any of the sentinels on 
guard around camp first noticing the approach of a general of the 
army, usually accompanied by one or more of his staff, to at once 
send notice to regimental headquarters so the squad on duty there 
would have time to form in line and be ready to properly salute the 
general on his arrival. Of course the sentinels could not leave their 
posts to carry the notice to headquarters. This, then, was the 
method of sending notice. If, to illustrate. General McClellan and 
staff were seen approaching the camp, the sentinel first observing 
him would cry out "Turn out the guard! General McClellan and 
staff." The sentinel next towards headquarters would take up the 
cry, pass it on to the next and he to the next and so on until the 
notice reached headquarters. Now the amusing incident. 

One night a corporal with twelve or fifteen men set out to relieve 
the same number of sentinels stationed around the camp. As the 
corporal and the squad approached, Dick Greenman, who was one 
of the men on post that night, called out " Halt! Who goes there?" 

Just then the corporal stubbed his sore toe, and instead of reply- 
ing " Friend with the countersign." he blurted out " Jesus Christ." 

Quick as flash came back from Dick: "Turn out the guard! 
Christ and the twelve Apostles." 



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PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR 

By Sergeant Hiram P. Thompson, San Diego, California 

In the winter and spring of 1861 I was receiving the finishing 
touches of a farmer's education in Western New York. Among 
my companions and schoohnates was my cousin two years my 
senior, a fine looking, dressy fellow, an athlete and perfect specimen 
of manhood, and always ready at a moment's notice for an encounter 
with anything of his age in the country. In fact he travelled some- 
what on his muscle, and boasted of his pugilistic qualities, and we 
classmates looked upon him as the John L. Sullivan of that time, 
and those who contested his authority admitted it. As there were 
rumors of war we knew if war came he would be one of the first 
to go to the front and make short work of the rebellion, but we 
learned afterwards that pugilists do not make the bravest soldiers, 
and he was no exception, for he was soon out of service. 

We little thought at the close of the winter's session that we would 
soon be in the service of Uncle Sam, but in July, 1861, meeting my 
cousin in Lockport, New York, where they were recruiting for the 
service, I challenged him to enlist. We could no longer restrain 
our enthusiasm, and enrolled our names that day with Captain 
Charles H. Moss, who had been educated at West Point, and was 
then raising a company, which afterwards became Company H in 
the 49th New York X'olunteers. At the time we joined we looked 
over the material composing the company and came to the con- 
clusion that if the captain knew his business when the selection for 
non-commissioned oi^cers was made, that we would receive nothing 
less than sergeantcies. We remained in Buffalo, New York, a short 
time, and were finally and formally mustered into the service 
August 19, 1861. 

During the time we were in camp in Buffalo the position of 
orderly sergeant was filled by Charley Murphy, as he was familiarly 
called by the boys. He had been in the three months service under 
McClellan. and we looked upon him with admiration, and to us he 
was an ideal soldier. We all learned to love him for his many good 
qualities of head and heart. A genial soul, whose sweet voice after- 
ward helped to pass the long and weary days of camp life in song 
and story. In fact, all recognized that he was the best equipped for 



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the position of orderly sergeant. Inasmuch as he performed the 
duties we concluded the captain had selected him for that position. 

Nothing unusual transpired on the route from Buffalo to New 
York. We remained there a sufficient length of time to receive our 
arms, when we proceeded to Washington and in a few days crossed 
the Chain Bridge into Virginia, where we were soon engaged in 
building one of the forts for the defense of Washington ( Fort Ethan 
Allen). Up to this time no non-commissioned officers had been 
appointed, the captain detailing those who acted in that capacity, 
from, time to time, as occasion required. But all things have an 
end, and our suspense in the direction indicated was set at rest early 
after our arrival in V'irginia. The captain, undoubtedly endeavor- 
ing to get the best men he could for non-commissioned officers, and 
my cousin and myself helping him all we could, there was no doubt 
that we were of the chosen few. Alas ! when the appointments were 
made, we were both doomed to disappointment. My cousin was 
made eighth corporal or brevet private, and I was made a full 
private, knapsack number 47. At this time our knapsacks were 
numbered one to one hundred, the tallest, or number one, upon the 
right of the company, and the shortest, number one hundred, upon 
the left. I suppose the idea was to enable us by number to identify 
our tents, as many of the boys had crowded them with mementoes 
from home so that they resembled young houses, when astride a 
man's shoulders, and they felt like it after carrying them for two or 
three hours. 

Upon our dismissal after dress parade on the evening the promo- 
tions were made, a council of war was held by the kickers and 
Murphy's friends, who instead of being made orderly, as all antici-- 
pated, was made fourth sergeant. The indignation of those present 
knew no bounds, and resulting in their visiting the captain's quar- 
ters and demanding that Murphy be made orderly sergeant, pre- 
senting their reasons therefor. Captain Moss listened patiently and 
attentively, and in his usual dignified and gentlemanly manner 
informed us that we were soldiers now. nuistcrcd into the service 
of the United States, subject to the rules and articles of war, and 
that we were now guilty of mutiny. He then read from the articles 
of war the penalties of our crime, and in a stern voice commanded 



122 History o£ the 49th Regiment 

us to disperse to our quarters, and that a repetition of this would 
cause him to have us all arrested and confined in the guard house 
and tried by court martial. He further impressed upon us the 
fact that he was the commander of the company, responsible for 
his acts, as well as the discipline of his men, and that he would 
officiate in the capacity the Governor of the State had placed him, 
until relieved, without a suggestion from us as to whom he should 
select for his non-commissioned officers. It is needless to say that 
the language of the captain impressed us with one idea at least, and 
that was that we were play soldiers no longer, but soldiers in earnest 
and that the captain was on the job. 

My friend Murphy then resolved himself into a committee of one 
to devise ways and means by which he might get out of the service 
honorably, and thus resent the indignation heaped upon him. His 
father was a prominent politician and highly respected citizen, and 
collector of revenue for his district, a most estimable man in every 
respect. Charley wrote him all the details of his trouble and urged 
him to proceed to Washington at once and secure, thru President 
Lincoln, a discharge from Company H, 49th New York Volun- 
teers. Having perfect faith in his father's ability and influence to 
accomplish the desired result, he called a few intimate friends into 
his confidence and unfolded his plans to get even with the captain. 
Both the captain and Charley were from Lockport, New York, 
where Charley had always been a great favorite with the boys and 
girls. Upon our departure from our home, he had been the 
recipient of many tokens of friendship and love, many of which 
became useful in camp to us boys who were fortunate enough to 
enjoy Charley's confidence. So positive was he of his father's suc- 
cess in the matter that he distributed these relics with a lavish 
hand. But man is doomed to disappointment. In a short time his 
father informed him that he could not secure his discharge as 
Captain Moss had presented his side of the case to the authorities. 
What fun the boys had at Charley's expense, when the result became 
generally known in camp. But Charley bore the guying good 
naturedly. He was as brave and reliable a soldier as if he had been 
a true and loyal citizen discharged for wounds. He had an honor- 
able record, and was terribly wounded, in the last battle of the war. 



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which crippled him for life, while serving as orderly sergeant in 
the 2d Infantry Rifles, commanded by Colonel Wood. 

At the Battle of Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1862, we were in line 
of battle, in the rear of the troops that were engaged, and the 
wounded were being carried thru our lines, which all must know 
is a trying ordeal for new soldiers to stand. The blanched faces 
and peculiar sensation in the neck told plainly how the boys felt; 
but Charley soon raised a laugh by making the statement, as they 
bore the bleeding boys off the field: " Boys, I would just as soon 
be killed as not, but my wife loves her husband so." We all knew 
he had no wife. It can be imagined how ludicrous it seemed, and 
many of the blanched faces wreathed in smiles at the stale joke. 

At the commencement of the war the Government was particular 
that the applicant for military honors should be twenty-one years of 
age, or obtain the consent of the parents or guardians. Being but 
nineteen my parents objected to my being a target, and it was neces- 
sary for me to bridge over the little period of two years by a stretch 
of the imagination, and hence myself became the authority as to 
qualifications. It is needless for me to say to you that know the 
hardships we endured how many times I regretted that paternal 
authority could not assert itself after I was in the field. My only fear, 
however, at the outset, was that the war would be over before I 
should have the opportunity to participate. Let me assure you, friends, 
that before the four years of which I was a soldier rolled around, 
I had abandoned my original idea and prayed many times that it 
woul^ close, and that mighty soon, as it was becoming decidedly 
dangerous ; the boys on the other side were careless when shooting. 

Emotions hitherto unknown filled our hearts, after reaching the 
sacred soil of Virginia. We were soldiers, wearing for the first 
time the army blue, and perhaps soon to be called out to meet in 
deadly strife an enemy whose prestige for valor was already well 
established. Were we to return to our friends from whom we had 
just parted, bearing the chaplet of victory, or were we to find a 
last resting place on some field in the South, never again to meet 
those we loved? When four years had passed and those doubts 
were solved, of the thousand or more who went forth in all the 
buoyancy of youth, but a few hundred returned. Not all killed in 
battle ; many are emaciated skeletons suffering a lingering death ; 



124 History of the 49th Regiment 

some sleep beneath the tall pines at Yorktown, Virginia ; and the 
bright azalia casts its purple blossoms over the graves of the many 
who lie in the swamps of the Chickahominy. The Antietam mur- 
murs a requiem to those who rest on its banks ; and green is the 
turf above the noble ones who fell gloriously at Fredericksburg. 
Some rest amid the wild tangles of the Wilderness and upon the 
arid plain of Cold Harbor. The marble monument at Fort Stevens 
tells the names of many who gave their lives in defense of the 
national capital ; while the covers of cracker boxes tell where repose 
many in the Valley of the Shenandoah and before Petersburg. 

A little band with bronzed faces and weary hearts returned home, 
where their glorious and unspotted records had preceded them. 
They needed no song of victory or band to herald their coming and 
desired no greater marks of honor than the badge of the grand 
old Sixth Corps and the bullet riddled flag told too plainly where 
the missing were from the 49th New York Volunteers. 

Fortunately, the regiment to which I belonged did not reach the 
scene of action till after the masterly advance of our troops upon 
Washington after the first Manassas or Bull Run engagement. 
Arriving at the national capital early in September we crossed the 
Chain Bridge into Virginia and assisted in the construction of the 
forts and defences of the national capital. And here we had prac- 
tical illustrations daily of the petty tyranny of several commissioned 
officers of the command, whom political influence had clothed with 
brief authority and who were unfitted by nature or education for 
the positions they were temporarily filling. This class all resigned 
after the first fight. 

And it was my experience that the officer who was a terror to his 
men usually injured the enemy but little. In alluding to the officers, 
in justice to many of the good ones in the regiment, I must say 
that the petty tyrants were largely in the minority. Among our 
officers were the two captains, Marsh of Company K and Drake of 
Company G, the former one of the most profane men I ever heard, 
the latter one of the most consistent Christians. Captain Drake 
was constantly upbraiding his brother officer for his profanity, when 
the latter said to him one day : " Captain Drake, you and I resemble 
each other very much. You pray a great deal, and I swear a great 



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deal, but God knows neither of us mean anything by it." The pro- 
fane captain resigned early in the War, the Christian one was pro- 
moted to colonel of the 112th New York Volunteers, and gave up 
his life at the Battle of Cold Harbor. An officer who used his men 
kindly and performed his duty upon the field of battle won admira- 
tion, love and respect, and no duty was considered too arduous for 
his men to do for him. No commander in the army was more 
beloved by his men than Colonel Bidwell, and long after he became 
a general, the men of the 49th Regiment still spoke of him as " Our 
Colonel." 

Our regiment participated in all the principal engagements that the 
Army of the Potomac were in, and belonged to the old Sixth Corps 
from its formation till the close of the war. On the 6th of Novem- 
ber, 1863, our company was detailed as provost guard of the Second 
Division, Sixth Corps, and remained such guard until December 
5, 1864, when I was reduced to the ranks for being absent without 
permission, and ordered to report to my regiment for duty. I con- 
gratulated myself many times since that my existence to-day is owing 
to the fact that I was on detached service for thirteen months. Brief 
as my services were as the non-commissioned officer in charge of 
the provost guard, many incidents transpired that are so indelibly 
fixed in my mind that I must relate some of them. 

Many pleasant recollections cluster around the old camp at 
Brandy Station, Virginia, during the winter of 1863-4, which can 
never be effaced from the memories of the old soldiers of the Army 
of the Potomac. But amid the pleasant memories of that time, there 
comes to me an incident that is so indelibly impressed upon my mind 
that its unpleasant memories force themselves upon me in spite of 
my desire to forget them. On December 5, 1863, the provost guard 
of the Second Division, Sixth Corps, was called upon to execute 
two men for desertion. At this time we had seventeen men in cus- 
tody for the same crime. Both belonged to the Vermont Brigade 
and had been in the custody of the guard, of which I was the non- 
commissioned officer in charge, a sufficient length of time for me 
to become well acquainted with them. On the morning of December 
5th, Major Brazee, the provost marshal, called me to his tent and 
requested me to detail two platoons of ten men each to execute the 



126 History of the 49th Regiment 

prisoners, and to do so at once, and march them to his quarters, 
when he would give further instructions regarding their duty. The 
order was comphed with, and after the instructions had been given 
they were ordered to stack arms and proceed to quarters. I was 
requested, with Sergeant Otis B. Hayes, to remain, when he would 
give us the details of our duties as non-commissioned officers in 
charge of the respective platoons. He first told us to load nineteen 
of the guns, leaving one blank, and to restack them, capping all. He 
then informed us that in the event of the men failing to do their 
duty, that we would be obliged to carry the sentence into execution 
ourselves. One of the deserters would be shot by my men, and 
the other deserter by the men under charge of Sergeant Hayes. 
Then my hair began to stand on end, and it was a serious question 
in my own mind whether I would have the moral courage to perform 
the duty assigned me should it become necessary. That problem 
still remains unsolved. 

It was a beautiful winter day in Virginia. The sky was clear 
and the sun rose brightly when the ambulance containing the rough 
wooden coffins was driven to the tents where the victims were under 
guard. Each prisoner took his seat upon his coffin and the retinue 
proceeded to the place of execution, where the division was formed 
in a hollow square to witness the sad affair. It was a scene full of 
awe, never to be forgotten by those who took part. All seemed to 
feel the solemn presence of death. When the coffins were taken 
from the ambulance they were placed at the head of the newly made 
graves, the prisoners standing in front. One of them attempted to 
be jovial, and called my attention to the fact that there was nothing 
to lie upon, that I should have put some shavings or something of 
that sort in, as it was a hard nest. But no applause greeted his 
remark, and it seemed to react on him with solemn force. When the 
Assistant Adjutant General of the division finished reading the find- 
ings of the court martial, they were ordered to kneel on their coffins 
and face the firing party. One of the men had exhibited the utmost 
fearlessness all thru the proceedings, and appeared to be the least 
concerned of any one present. Oh, how I dreaded to see such a 
game man shot! When the order was given, "Ready," to the 
provost guard, he clapped his hand over his heart and said : " Boys, 



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shoot me there, make no mistake." I shall never forget this par- 
ticular minute. I think I lived an age in less time than it takes 
me to tell it, and for the first and only time in my life I wanted to 
see a man killed outright without the possibility of that duty devolv- 
ing upon me. At the command ' 'Fire " I was oblivious to the 
world ; but the man I was to shoot fell forward upon his face, and 
death was instantaneous. When I saw the holes the bullets had 
torn thru the back of his coat, in the vicinity of his heart, it seemed 
an awful responsibility had been lifted from me, and how fervently 
I thanked God that my men had done their duty well, and saved me 
the disgrace and perhaps failure to do mine. 

Sergeant Hayes was not so fortunate. The man he was to shoot 
jumped from his coffin, falling on his face, and with uplifted eyes 
exclaimed : " Oh my God, my God.'' It appeared as tho Sergeant 
Hayes would have to finish him. Poor fellow, as I looked upon my 
right down the line, his face bore the most unmistakable sign of his 
feelings, but the poor felow who was shot struggled a moment more 
and died, tho many present heard his moanings. Fortunately, how- 
ever, the commands of the officers in moving the troops who marched 
past the remains drowned his cries to some extent. 

While at White Oak Church, Virginia, just prior to the Battle 
of Fredericksburg, a tragedy not down on the program occurred 
at the time of which I am writing. I was orderly sergeant of the 
company and disease had been so busy in our ranks that the regi- 
ment was reduced in numbers to such an extent that picket duty 
came every second day, hence, the boys were on duty most of the 
time. Among the members of the company were two that seemed 
to be more than ordinarily affectionate to one another and were 
inseparable companions, true mates and invariably together. One was 
named Stewart and the other Boyle. A day or two prior to the 
unhappy event I am about to relate took place, they both came to 
my tent, addressing me and inquiring whether or not they could 
make their wills, one in favor of the other? I answered in the 
affirmative and wished to know why they desired to do so. Their 
answer was that they had no knowledge of any living relative, and 
it was possible that one might be killed and the other survive, and. 
in that event they desired that the one surviving should have 
whatever the deceased might have on his person at the time, and 
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his arrears of pay. I proceeded with them to the tent of Captain 
Brazee, an attorney, who commanded the company, and made known 
their request. The document was drawn up by the captain as 
requested, and I signed the same as witness, and we returned to 
quarters. 

The following day I detailed them both for picket duty. Stewart 
was company cook and protested. We were then picketing near 
Acquia Creek, Virginia, in a piece of woods. Stewart, an inveterate 
joker and wag, never enjoyed himself so well as when he had played 
a joke upon his comrades, and wishing to have his friend Boyle 
among the victims, had conceived the idea that when Boyle was 
on duty in the woods in the dark, he would get outside of the line, 
make some demonstrations that would scare his chum and make 
him think the Confederate army was upon him. He did so, Boyle 
calling for help, and discharging his gun at the same moment. All 
occasion for alarm immediately ceased, and the officer of the picket 
line. Lieutenant Borcherdt, procuring a light, soon found the cause 
of the difficulty. Poor Stewart lay cold in death, his friend, Boyle, 
having killed him, his being the only gun discharged, and, in the 
dark, simply pointing it in the direction from whence the noise came. 
Upon being informed of what he had done, he fainted away, and 
soon lost his reason. The shooting of his friend was too much of 
a shock for his nerves. And thus thru the foolishness of a brave 
soldier, the company lost the services of two of its members. And 
general orders were issued commending Boyle for what he had 
done. 

Upon my return to the regiment, the colonel promoted me to 
sergeant, and I was detailed to instruct recruits in the manual of 
arms, in which I was proficient. Having become weary of the dis- 
gustingly small list of the fatalities among commissioned officers 
of the company, I despaired of ever becoming one in my own 
regiment, and went before the examining board at Washington, 
presided over by General Silas Casey, and passed the examination 
for the grade of first lieutenant. T was assigned to a colored regi- 
ment in South Carolina, which position I declined to accept, the 
colonel assuring me that I should have the first vacancy in my 
own regiment. Those of you who visited Washington during the 
war will recall the fact that the city was literally run over with 



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soldiers, hence anyone wearing less than a star of a brigadier was 
scarcely worthy of recognition. 

But how conditions change sentiment ; and once, at least, even a 
private soldier was welcome at Washington. The Sixth Corps had 
been transferred from Petersburg to assist in preventing General 
Early from establishing his headquarters at the National Capitol. 
As we landed at the foot of Sixth street. President Lincoln stood 
on the wharf chatting familiarly with the veterans as we formed in 
line and marched out Seventh street to Fort Stevens. The citizens 
accorded us a royal welcome, dirty as we were, exclaiming, " It is 
the old Sixth Corps, the danger is now over ! " Washington an 
hour before was in a panic ; now as the people saw the veterans 
marching thru the streets, wearing the Greek cross, the excitement 
subsided and confidence was restored. As we went out Seventh 
street to meet the enemy in mortal combat, we were followed by an 
immense throng. 

President Lincohi and many distinguished citizens stood upon the 
parapet of Fort Stevens when Colonel Bidwell led the Third Brigade 
out to do battle with Early's hosts. One out of every four who went 
into the fight never returned, having either been killed or wounded. 
My next visit to Washington was in May, 1865, when the victorious 
armies of the Union marched in grand review thru its streets, under 
the scorching rays of one of the hottest days known at the capital, 
and when scores of our men fell from sunstroke and exhaustion, 
fainting and reeling before the stand of the reviewers. 

Recently I visited the city of Washington. Time had wrought 
most wonderful changes. My first desire, after a resfreshing night's 
sleep, was to visit the battlefield of July 12, 1864. There is a morbid 
curiosity in the breasts of most soldiers of the war to visit battle- 
fields whenever the opportunity offers, which is unexplainable. 
Engaging a horse and buggy I started out Seventh street to find Fort 
Stevens, the scene of the conflict that had occurred fifty years 
before, when the Confederates nearly captured the National Capital. 
They would have done so but for the fact that the troops under the 
command of General Early were so confident after their brilliant 
and successful raid thru Pennsylvania that they encamped for the 
night in front of the defences of Washington, at that time defended 



130 History of the 49th Regiment 

by clerks from the departments and by untrained men. This delay 
proved fatal to the Confederate leader and enabled the Sixth Corps 

to meet them. 

Fort Stevens in 1864 was some distance outside of the city limits, 
as were the defences all around the city. I had no doubt when 1 
started to look for the spot that I would have any difficulty in 
locating- the fort. But, to my surprise, I found nearly all traces gone 
and the city extended to and beyond the place. It is only noticeable 
by some earth thrown up, which in these peaceful times would indi- 
cate excavations for a building. 

Few people whom I met in driving to the place could tell me 
where the battle was fought, and had never heard of it. An old 
soldier might well feel like Rip Van Winkle in the play. Are we 
so soon forgotten when we are gone? 

A stone church now stands upon the enclosure of the fort, and 
wending my way along the street my attention was called to some 
earth thrown up and, noticing some plasterers at work in the rear, I 
inquired of them if this was not Fort Stevens. They answered in 

the negative. 

I saw some eighty rods farther, the stars and stripes waving and 

reaching the point found it to be the National Cemetery, where 

repose the remains of those of our boys who fell in the defence of 

the National Capital. I was directed by the superintendent of the 

cemetery to return to the church I had passed and I would stand 

where I had stood so many years ago. When the fight was in 

progress, 1 had been stationed with about one hundred and twenty 

men, deployed in the rear of the line of battle, with orders to permit 

no citizen to go to the front nor soldiers to the rear, while the 

attack was being made by our soldiers. While posting some of my 

men on the right of Seventh street, the guards on the streets called 

me to them. As I reached the thorofare I noticed several carriages. 

In the front I saw President Lincoln and Secretary of War Stanton, 

neither of whom I knew personally, but had noticed Mr. Lincoln 

and his little son. Tad, the evening before when we landed at Sixth 

street, from City Point, Virginia. And there could be no mistaking 

that face. As I approached him with a military salute he inquired 

what mv orders were? I informed him that my instructions were 

to let no citizen to the front without a pass from the Secretary of 



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War. He informed me that he was President Lincoln and that 
the Secretary of War was his companion. I told him that I did 
not question that, but that I must have written authority to protect 
myself, or I could not permit him to pass. Mr. Stanton, while this 
conversation was going on, was writing, and calling me to him, he 
handed me a piece of paper upon which was written: " Guards and 
patrols, Pass President Lincoln. Secretary of War, and suite, to the 
front. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War." 

Does the world that knows nothing of the art of war think what 
makes generals ? "Tis the valor of the private soldier upon the field 
of battle. Most of the great armies of the world consisted of 
soldiers that were hirelings. Nearly all of ours were eager volun- 
teers, of intelligence, of moral as well as physical courage. With the 
private soldier patriotism was a passion, the want of it a crime. 
It was the private soldiers that marched like heroes and gods into 
the jaws of death for their country's flag. It was only a piece of 
bunting they left home for, but it was precious to the boys in front. 
It was very holy to their eyes. It seemed only a rag, a combination 
of colors, but it meant an ideal, a principle, to the soldiers of the 
army. These were the men, who in the anny's vicissitudes, in all 
the changes of commanders, when marshalled by joy or crushed by 
defeat and despair, stood staunch and true to their flag. 



ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC 

By Etheluina Eliot Beers 

" All quiet along the Potomac," they say, 
"Except, now and then, a stray picket 

Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro. 
By a rifleman hid in the thicket." 

'Tis nothing — a private or two now and then 
Will not count in the news of the battle; 

Not an officer lost — only one of the men 
Moaning out, all alone, the death rattle. 

All quiet along the Potomac to-night, 

Where the soldiers lay peacefully dreaming; 

Their tents, in the rays of the clear autumn moon, 
Or the light of a watch-fire, are gleaming. 



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A tremulous sigh of the gentle night wind 
Thru the forest leaves softly is creeping, 

While the stars above, with their glistening eyes, 
Keep guard, for the army is sleeping. 

There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread. 
As he tramps from the rock to the fountain. 

And thinks of the two in a low trundle bed, 
Far away in the cot on the mountain. 

His musket falls slack ; his face, dark and grim, 
Grows gentle with memories tender 

As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep — 
For their mother ; may heaven defend her ! 

The moon seems to shine just as brightly as then. 
That night when the love yet unspoken 

Leaped up to his lips — when the low murmured vows 
Were pledged to be ever unbroken. 

Then, drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes, 
He dashes off tears that are welling. 

And gathers his gun closer up to its place, 
As if to keep down the heart-swelling. 

He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree, 
The footstep is lagging and weary; 

Yet onward he goes thru the broad belt of light, 
Toward the shade of the forest so dreary. 

Hark ! Was it the wind that rustled the leaves — 
Was it moonlight so wondrously flashing — 

It looked like a rifle — " Ha ! Mary, good-by ! " 
The red life blood is ebbing and plashing. 

All quiet along the Potomac to-night, 
Not a sound save the rush of the river ; 

While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead — 
The picket's off duty forever! 



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Chapter XIV 

A TYPICAL FORAGING EXPEDITION 

By Sergeant Alexander H. McKelvy, of Warren, Pennsylvania 

IN October, 1863, while the 49th New York Volunteers were 
encamped near Stonehouse Mountain, some half dozen of the 
boys went out beyond the lines to do a little foraging ; and 
thereby add to their commissary stores as well as see the country 
and have a bit of adventure, and they got both " grub " and adven- 
ture, as the story will unfold. The little party was made up of some 
few from three companies of the regiment, and they took but one 
or two muskets and a small supply of ammunition to defend them- 
selves in case of an attack by guerillas who usually infested the 
outskirts of the Union army. 

After proceeding some four miles from camp they came to a 
prosperous looking farm upon which was situated a good farm 
house and the usual out-buildings, and upon going to the house 
they found it to be occupied by some fine looking Southern ladies, 
but no man appeared to welcome them. 

The " Yankee " soldiers, upon a close inspection of the premises, 
discovered the farmstead had not been disturbed by the soldiers 
of either side, therefore there were plenty of good things to eat 
and drink, which tickle the appetite ; and they soon got busy in 
rounding up the products of this particular Virginia farm. 

And while they were in the house up stairs and down cellar and 
in and about the outhouses, collecting chickens, hams, honey, milk, 
cream and bread; a bell on the ridge pole of the house, used to call 
the men to dinner, was in some mysterious way rung, and soon 
the boys discovered that the bell had invited a party of guerillas to 
take a hand in the exercises of the day then being held at the house. 

Those fellows were a party of Mosby's men, who had been con- 
cealed with their horses in a bushy ravine in the rear of the barn, 
and as they moved forward to gobble up the " Yanks," they were 



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opposed by those gentlemen, who promptly formed in battle array 
to defend their persons and plunder. 

One bluecoat who was either at the barn or was acting as a 
vidette while his comrades despoiled the Egyptians, was wounded 
by a shot while separated from his comrades, but who, by means 
of that one musket, covered him until he could be brought in, and 
then loaded down with their spoil and hampered by their wounded 
friend, they made a slow and orderly retreat back to camp, which 
in due time they reached without further casualty. 

The next day they were called to account, and as they had been 
absent from duty without leave, they were duly tried by a field 
court martial, found guilty in manner and form as indicted, and fined 
three dollars apiece. And just where or what became of those 
fines, your chronicler deposes not, and that subject will always 
remain a mystery to the end of time, we suppose. 

A few weeks after this event the Sixth Corps went into winter 
camp at Brandy Station, and it may be noted in passing, that 
during the Revolutionary War, there was fought the Battle of 
Brandywine, and so was fought in the spring of 1864 the great 
cavalry fight at Brandy Station. 

Two companies of our regiment were detailed to guard head- 
quarters wagons which were sent out to capture and collect lumber 
to build winter quarters. Among the men detailed on this duty 
were the heroes of the fight at the farm, and they led the train to 
the same farm house, where they made their second call on the 
ladies, then coolly proceeded to help themselves to more provisions, 
not forgetting to lay in a good supply of blankets, bed quilts and 
the like, all of which came in good play during that hard winter in 
camp at Brandy Station, Virginia. 



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A PERSONAL INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT LINCOLN 

By Major Fred C. Barger, of New York City 

In May, 1864, I was an inspector on the staff of General William 
Hayes, in New York City. I had lost my right hand in the Battle 
of Fredericksburg, in December, 1862, and as soon as I was able 
to leave the hospital in Washington, was assigned to this position, in 
which I had served a year and a half, including the period of the 
draft and riots in July, 1863. 

My three years of service were about to expire and my friends 
at home asked me if I would like the position of Postmaster in my 
native town of Westfield, New York, to which I replied that I would 
be very glad to have it. In a short time I received a letter from 
Honorable Reuben Eaton Fenton (who represented the district in 
Congress, and who was later twice Governor of the State of New 
York, and also United States Senator), asking me to meet him in 
Washington. Upon my arrival there he said: "I want to take 
you to the White House and introduce you to the President." 

We found a large assemblage waiting for admittance, but Con- 
gressman Fenton's relations with Mr. Lincoln were very intimate, 
and his card opened the way for us at once. On introducing me he 
said : " Mr. President, this is one of my boys, who left his right 
hand at Fredericksburg, and our friends in Westfield would like 
to have him appointed Postmaster there." 

The great man gave us his entire attention, as tho he had plenty 
of leisure, and entered into a friendly conversation, asking me 
about my service in the army, etc., and said he would be glad to 
make the appointment. 

I then said : " I suppose, Mr. President, that I shall have to 
resign my commission ! " to which he replied instantly : 

" Oh, no ! don't do that. A good many officers are resigning for 
a good many reasons, and it is no particular credit to a man to have 
resigned from the army at this time. I will direct the Secretary 
of War to issue a special order, discharging you from the army, on 
account of disability from wounds received in action. That will 
look a great deal better in your record." 

I had thought only of obtaining an honorable discharge, and his 
quick appreciation of the situation and thoughtfulness of the effect 



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on my personal record, at a time when he was overwhelmed with 
the affairs of the nation affected me deeply. 

The most desirable discharge for a solider is " on account of 
wounds received in action," and while I had considered resig-ning, 
I had not thought of what would appear in my record in the War 
Department. I shall never forget how his face lighted up, and 
his kindly smile, when he took the matter out of my hands and 
settled it for me. 

At that moment his entire thoughts were of my welfare. I had 
him all to myself, and it was the proudest moment of my life. I had 
seen him on the Peninsula, and in Maryland and Virginia, when he 
visited the Army of the Potomac, and had saluted him with my 
sword when passing in review before him, but did not suppose I 
would ever have the honor of a personal interview with him. 

My commission as Postmaster, bearing his signature, which I 
received soon after his interview, is among my most cherished 
possessions. 

STORY OF A ROAST PIG 

By Sergeant Sumner A. Smith, of Kennedy, New York 

General Sedgwick, with the gallant Sixth Corps, had crossed the 
Rappahannock below Fredericksburg, captured Marye's Heights, 
moved to Salem Church, and keeping the right of General Lee's 
army more than busy, while he was anxiously waiting, watching 
and listening for the sound of Hooker's guns. 

We laid on our arms all night. Just before daylight. Colonel 
Bidwell gave the order, " Attention, 49th, forward, double-quick ! " 
After a race of two miles we were deployed as skirmishers on the 
crest of Marye's Heights. Here we could hear the moving cannons, 
rattle of arms, and the command of officers in our front, and we 
knew the chances were the devil would be to pay as soon as dawn 
appeared. We had not long to wait. The growing light and spit- 
spat of the bullets from a house directly in our front told the story, 
not to speak of the enemy in line of battle, which could be discerned 
beyond. There wasn't many of them, a brigade or so, but enough 
to make things lively for us. as we were only a skirmish line without 
support. 



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General Neill and staff were along, and just opposite our com- 
pany — a bullet striking uncomfortably near — the general turned to 
Captain Terry and said, " Captain, send a sergeant with five men 
down to that house and drive those men away." 

Now, I make no pretense to extraordinary bravery. If I could 
serve my country just as well behind a tree, as in front of it, I lost 
no time getting behind it. While my bump of inquisitiveness is 
reasonably large, I have also one of caution, and no one can say 
they ever saw me stick my head over the breastworks just to see if 
I could dodge the bullet that was sure to follow. 

I remember at Cold Harbor we had a comrade who was chock full 
of that kind of business. We kept saying, " Keep down, John, you'll 
get hit ! " but he paid no attention and soon paid the penalty. 

Company G at this time was blest with three sergeants, Sperry, 
Thompson and the writer. Sperry and Thompson were pretty fly 
and seldom gave one a chance to get the best of them, but Captain 
Terry was standing near, and, seizing the opportunity, I said, 
"Captain, let me go!" "All right," said he, "take the first five 
men to the right," who proved to be Bill Mulkie, A. D. Harris, 
Ira K. Button, Ab Miller and Jim Sherman. 

We had a council of war, and reasoned that it wouldn't do to go 
straight to the house, as the occupants would surely see us, and if 
we didn't get a dose of cold lead, they would undoubtedly make 
things uncomfortable for us, so we decided to make a flank move- 
ment to the left and strike a small ravine, which led up to the house. 

" Boys, be careful and keep your shirts on, and maybe you'll get 
those fellows," said Captain Terry as we were about to be off. 
Now, ordinarily, such a piece of advice and caution would have 
been all right but with us " old vets," who, in the interest of good 
sanitary conditions and peace and tranquility of mind, had been 
fighting the lively graybacks with our shirts off, for upwards of 
two years with the very best of reasons, the question arose why 
shouldn't we pull them off now, if the occasion demanded. But it 
was ours to obey, and with another injunction from Captain Terry 
to mind our P's and Q's, away we sallied. 

Someone said that if we could get thru there without being seen 
it would be a surprise party. Now, I have heard it asserted that our 
friends the enemy were gentlemen of more than ordinary sensi- 



138 History of the 49th Regiment 

bilities. That they were very particular regarding the rules of 
etiquet, especially of those of receiving and making calls, but the 
young man dressed in gray with a gun in his hand, who answered 
the knock at the door, accepted the situation with a grace that 
was commendable, and calling his comrades, who were upstairs, to 
" Come down for there were a lot of Yanks," handing over his 
musket with celerity and dispatch, without as much as saying 
"By your leave, sir!" "By jocks, that's my gun!" said Ira as 
he took the gun, and sure enough there were his initials carved on 
the stock. So Ira, in making a new acquaintance, had recovered 
his trusty musket, which he lost in the Seven Days' Fight, some 
five months before. 

One of the boys took the " Johnnies " back to Captain Terry, and 
the rest of us went upstairs, and the way we made those old Spring- 
field rifles ring was a caution. It turned out that the troops in our 
front were a part of the Confederate General McLaw's, the two 
captives belonging to the 48th Virginia, and orders from General 
Lee to avoid bringing on a general engagement until reinforced, 
which didn't transpire until five o'clock that evening. 

After awhile, hunger came gnawing away, and we were getting 
short of ammunition, so one of the men went back for more cart- 
ridges, and Bill Mulkie said he would see what could be done in 
the way of appeasing the pangs of hunger, while the rest of us 
kept the stretcher bearers busy in our front. 

Bill was a good forager, had learned by experience where to 
search for good things and soon found a .small pig ready for cooking. 
It did not take long to have a good fire in the stove, and there was 
a good show for a meal. 

The fumes of roast pig, and the anticipation of a good, square 
meal, with real earthen dishes, had made us a little careless, and 
some one from upstairs came rushing down with the awful news, 
"The Johnnies are coming!" and, sure enough, there they were, 
not a hundred yards away. " Boys, we've got to get! " said I, and 
leaving everything, we rushed up the hill. Afterwards the boys 
used to query, " Who roasted the pig?" " Bill Mulkie." " Who 
ate the pig?" "Johnny Reb." 



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A NOTABLE ARTILLERY SHOT 

By Sergeant Alexander H. McKelvy, of Warren, Pennsylvania 

When the Army of the Potomac was withdrawn to the north bank 
of the Rappahannock River after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 
December, 1862, our old division was drawn up in line on the Fal- 
mouth flats, where I witnessed the following incident which I will 
try to relate for the benefit of posterity. 

It will be recalled by those who were present that " Franklin's 
Bridge "' was below the city some two miles, and that the north 
end started opposite a large natural spring which flowed out of the 
bank, and I will say in passing that the spring is still there doing 
business at the " old stand," for a party of us took a big gourd and 
drank heartily from it in October, 1902, and that the water is still 
good and life-giving. 

That foggy morning when we came back, like the cat, the " Buck- 
tails " were deployed along our bank of the river, and each one 
was in a little square rifle pit of his own digging, and they were 
busy with their breech-loading Spencer rifles paying their compli- 
ments to any of the enemy who might be in range, in fact they, with 
some artillery, were covering the recrossing of the river. 

The Johnnies elated with their victory were not slow in speeding 
the departing guests, and pretty soon we saw a line of skirmishers 
being pushed forward towards the south end of the bridge, dodging 
and feeling their way to the front. 

I noticed they were commanded by an ofiicer, I should judge he 
was a major, well mounted on a powerful, fine-looking horse as he 
rode in the rear of the line, his arm extended as giving orders to his 
men, and his horse was prancing and curveting as if it felt its oats. 

As soon as attention was attracted to the approaching line and 
officer, I noticed a slight commotion in the battery to our left and 
rear, and felt that something would be doing very soon, and sure 
enough, an officer was seen sighting one of the brass field pieces of 
which the United States battery was composed. 

Bang went the gun, and as soon as the smoke lifted, we saw that 
proud officer lying on the ground across the river, and his fine steed 
was careering away to the rear and soon disappeared behind a slight 



140 History of the 49th Regiment 

rise of ground beyond the earthworks, and that seemed too much for 
the skirmish line, and away they went helter skeUer and we saw 
them no more. 

I do not know the distance traversed by that shot, but should put 
it at least one-half mile, for it included the width of the river and 
a considerable strip of land on both sides of the river, for the 
battery stood well back towards the Falmouth Heights. 

We read much nowadays about famous shots in the army during 
the Civil War, and this is my contribution to the work for the 
benefit of the History of the 49th New York Volunteers, and 
imperfect and crude as it is I trust it will awaken some old 
memories of that great and badly fought battle. 

Now, boys, when you visit that battlefield, especially the left, 
where we held the line, don't fail to drink from the old spring which 
slaked the thirst and filled the canteens of many of our brave boys 
who went over the river that fateful fogg}^ morning, and who never 
came back. 

A TRIBUTE TO A LOYAL VIRGINIAN 

By Sherman Williams, of New York City 

During the winter of 1861-2 the 49th Regiment had its winter 
quarters at Camp Griffin in Fairfax County, Virginia, about six 
miles from Washington. In the latter part of January, 1862, Briga- 
dier General John Wynn Davidson was assigned to the command 
of the brigade to which the 49th Regiment was attached. 

General Davidson was born and reared in Fairfax County not far 
from Camp Griffin. The whirlgig of time and the fortunes of war 
had brought him back to the scene of his boyhood days. Bom in 
1824 he was appointed a cadet to West Point from Fairfax County 
in 1841 and he graduated with honor in 1845. 

Upon graduating he was assigned to the 1st United States 
Dragoons and soon after ordered to the western frontier, where 
his regiment had been sent to protect the settlers from Indian 
depredations. 

For gallantry in the Mexican War he received two promotions. 
In November, 1861, he was ordered to report for duty in Washing- 
ton, and in January following took command of our brigade. He 



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brought with him, from the west, a beautiful black Mexican mus- 
tang, which had been presented to him by the celebrated Indian 
scout, Kit Carson. His long service, with a cavalry regiment, made 
him at home in the saddle and when riding his well-trained mustang, 
he was perhaps the most graceful horseman in the Army of the 
Potomac. While in Camp Griffin, General Davidson was often 
visited by his relatives and friends, most of whom strongly sympa- 
thized with the South, and they tried to persuade him to desert the 
Union cause and join the Confederate army, where it was said he 
had been offered the position of major general. Virginia had 
seceded from the Union. His relatives and friends were urging 
him to go with his native state, as General Robert Edmund Lee 
had already done. The pressure was great from many sides, but to 
his everlasting credit, be it said, to all of these disloyal appeals, he 
gave an emphatic no. Said he : " Much as I love my relatives and 
friends in Fairfax County, much as I honor my native state, much 
more do I love, honor and respect my country, which has given me 
my military education, honored me with promotions from time to 
time and I am going to stand by the ' Old Flag.' 

" On receiving my first commission and on every promotion 
thereafter, I have taken a solemn oath to defend that flag against 
all enemies from without and from all traitors within. That oath 
I consider most sacred and binding." 

Like that other great Virginia soldier, Major General George 
Henry Thomas, who won so many decisive victories with the Army 
of the Tennessee, General Davidson did stand by the " Old Flag " 
until it floated triumphantly over every Southern state. 

In 1866 General Davidson was sent to the military district of the 
Yellowstone to keep the warlike Indians there in subjection. On 
May 21, 1881, he was given a sick leave and on June 26, 1881, he 
died in a hospital at Saint Paul, Minnesota. 

To the Union men of the South, both in civil and military life, 
belong the highest credit for their unswerving loyalty and devotion 
to the cause of human freedom under such trying conditions. 



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THE METHODIST MINISTER WHO OWNED CAMP GRIFFIN, 
VIRGINIA, WHERE THE 49th NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS 
ENCAMPED DURING THE WINTER OF 1861-2 

By Sergeant Clakk S. Hazeltine, of Compton, California 

On July 22, 1915, occurred the death of Reverend D. M. Muters- 
baugh at Los Angeles, California, the Methodist minister who 
owned the farm upon which was located Camp Griffin in Virginia 
during the winter of 1861-2. For more than fifty years Mr. Muters- 
baugh served actively in the ministry without accepting remunera- 
tion. It was the rule of his life not to accept a cent for church work. 
H'e returned all money sent to him. 

Some sixteen years ago I ran across him at a Reunion of the 
Southern California \^eteran's Association held that year at Long 
Beach, California. He stood by while Comrade John Brooker of 
Company A, 49th Regiment, was speaking. 

He heard me say there was a chestnut tree at the corner of Captain 
Alonzo J. Marsh's tent with a pile of rocks around it at Camp 
Griffin. He went on to his dinner and had a talk with his wife. 
When he met me again he asked me if my Colonel was Bidwell, and 
I said yes. " Well," said he, " that chestnut tree was the corner of 
my farm." 

For awhile before our coming he had been under parole by the 
Confederates. His family had got out of provisions. He had 
noticed no Confederates had been around for some days so he took 
his horse and rode out to the divide to investigate, and saw a camp 
of men with dark clothes. He rode back and told his sister his 
parole was out as there was a change in the army, and he would 
go over to the camp and see if he could get a permit to go to George- 
town for supplies. He met General William Farrar Smith, Division 
Commander, who questioned him as to his intentions and then told 
him he could not be permitted to cross the Potomac. But the Gen- 
eral desired to know if he had potatoes. 

" Yes, in the ground." " Well, you go home and dig some and 
haul them to camp and tell Quartermaster Alexander to take them 
out and roll in your wagon a barrel of flour." 



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He hesitated some, but finally went home and dug till night. He 
put them in his wagon and going over he met the general at about 
the same place he met him the day before. General Smith stopped 
him, found he had the potatoes and gave him the same words as 
before. "Well," he said, "How will I know the quartermaster?" 
The general took his tablet and on it wrote an order, which he 
handed to Mr. Mutersbaugh. 

Without difficulty he found Quartermaster Alexander, and some 
men were ordered to exchange the flour for the potatoes. But as 
he only had six bushels, and flour was twelve dollars a barrel, he 
told the quartermaster he would pay the difference in money. 
Quartermaster Alexander said, " Go on home with your flour accord- 
ing to the General's orders." 

Soon after that our Third Brigade went on his farm to camp, 
and staid all winter. A bakery was installed and his supply of char- 
coal and wood was used to bake with, and his covered wagon was 
used to distribute bread to the division. 

I got quite well acquainted with him out here in California, as he 
was in Long Beach a good deal. I would meet him, and he would 
laughingly ask if I was ready to pay the rent for his farm, which 
the Union army used in the winter of 1861-2. I asked him if he 
ever got his pay for what was used. " O, yes," he said, " I came 
out satisfied." 

A BAD HALF HOUR WITH GENERAL " BALD Y " SMITH 

By Sergeant Alexander H. McKelvy, of Warren, Pennsylvania 

In June, 1862, General William Farrar Smith's Division of the 
Sixth Corps lay at Camp Lincoln on the right bank of the Chicka- 
hominy in plain sight of the church spires of Richmond. One night 
I was on guard at division headquarters — in fact, m}- place of honor 
was in front of the General's tent. 

During the night the hours grew longer and more lonely toward 
morning, and as I was the owner of a vigorous appetite, I con- 
cluded to do a bit of foraging on my own account, so leaving my 
post I went to the rear where I found the kitchen tent, and there in 
a tin bake oven I discovered and confiscated some fine baking powder 
biscuits left over from supper, and put away by the black cook. 
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Upon these and other good edibles I regaled myself, then back to 
duty like a good soldier, and shortly before dawn I contracted 
another fool notion and that was the idea of improving the time, 
which the General was wickedly wasting in a warm, snug bed, by 
cleaning up and burnishing my good Springfield rifle. 

So at it I went and in two minutes I was seated on a stone at 
one side of the tent with the gun taken apart and scattered about on 
the grass. Now it appears that General " Baldy " Smith had formed 
the foolish habit of early rising and as I learned later he was out 
every morning bright and early, when we were face to face with 
the enemy, to " ride the lines," accompanied by an orderly. 

At early down I heard a slight noise behind me, and on turning 
my head I beheld a sight that froze me to that rock and paralyzed 
me with my mouth wide open, for there emerging from his tent 
came the general fully dressed and equipped, and just at that 
moment his orderly appeared with the general's horse and his own. 
Well, there was a mutual surprise party that was absorbingly inter- 
esting, and the principal amusement was a very vociferous silence 
and a remarkably stony glare on the part of the general, and now 
" I'm a goner " sigh from the guard. 

It was my duty to be on my feet and salute the general by pre- 
senting arms, but alas, I was rooted fast to the sacred soil of 
Virginia, and my gun barrel lying across my knees weighed a ton 
by actual heart beats. 

I was under the spell of a horrible night mare, and just then I 
would have given my kingdom for a horse so I could escape from 
the piercing eye of the commander of the division. Well, he looked 
at me as he stood, and he looked at me as I sat, and I shrunk and 
shrunk and shrank ; and " thunk " and " thunk " and thank, then 
disappeared in my hat. With one final withering glance he turned, 
mounted his horse and rode to the front, but he had not deigned to 
address one word to me during the time. After I came to, I 
assembled my scattered musket, and in due time was relieved from 
guard duty and retired to my tent to meditate. 

Later I was summoned to the tent of Colonel Bidwell, which I 
entered with fear and trembling, for I knew the sequel of the 
general's matinee was at hand, and saluted him in my best and 



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most amiable "first aid to the wounded " manner, which he acknowl- 
edged and then opened his rapid fire question battery on me before I 
could unlimber my excuse ammunition box. 

I was informed that the general had reported me for remissness in 
duty and asked me to plead and show cause why I should not be 
punished to the full extent of the military law, or words to that 
effect. I promptly pleaded guilty and in extenuation of my crime, 
I took the colonel into my confidence and unfolded the sad tale of 
how it came to pass. Of course I did not feel that he would feel 
interested to any great extent in the short foraging expedition, for 
that I think was not in the indictment of the court, so I confined my 
evidence strictly to a resume of breach of duty. In answer to his 
question why I did not salute the general, I said my gun was in no 
condition to perform that fine military act, and that I was sur- 
prised and overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of General 
Smith, but in extenuation of my conduct I plead the economic use 
of time to put my gun in inspectable condition for that day. 
Colonel Bidwell mused for a few tense minutes and then said, '* Go 
to your quarters, but if I hear of any more of this loose way of 
doing duty, especially any disrespect to your officers, you will not 
get rid of me so easily as you did this time." 

I simply give the substance of his remarks for it is not possible to 
state verbatim conversation which took place forty odd years ago. 
I may add that among all my subsequent foolish acts, and they were 
legion, disrespect to my general was not on the list. The old 
general passed away in the winter of 1903 ; and I recall General 
Smith as a good officer, and one who never led his boys into any 
place that he would not enter himself if necessary. I know he led 
his division to victory at Antietam and received much praise for 
the gallant charge of our old Third Brigade, in the attack just 
opposite the Dunker Church. Peace to his ashes. 



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REMINISCENCES OF MAY 18th 
By Sergeant Sumner A. Smith, of Kennedy, New York 

I am not a bit superstitious, neither am 1 particularly stuck on 
omens. Had I a contract to build a railroad to the moon I would 
just as soon commence it on Friday as any other day. 

I enjoy my Christmas dinner with thirteen around the table, as 
well as if it was any other number ; and I do not care a rap whether 
I see the new moon over my right shoulder or my left. The four- 
leaved clover has no attraction for me, and no one can say they 
ever saw a horse shoe hung" over my door for good luck. But with 
all this I know " There is a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough 
hew them as we will." 

Many things are unaccountable to us all ; things happen during 
our daily walks which we cannot understand ; and I am inclined to 
think that's just as it should be. 

I remember when I was a small boy of hearing my father say, 
" that seemingly the 18th of May had been a day of events with the 
Smith family." It was his birthday and he mentioned a number of 
things that happened on that particular day, and a few years after, 
the only sister I had sickened and died on the 18th of May. It 
was on the 18th of May, 1864, that General Grant sent his message 
to the seat of government at Washington, " I propose to fight it 
out on this line if it takes all summer." 

We marched nearly all night. We knew we were going back to 
the battlefield of the 12th ; back to Spottsylvania Court House ; 
back to what was then called, and has ever since been known as the 
" Bloody Angle." Once more we knew we were to lock horns 
with General Lee, and if possible, break thru his center, cutting 
his army in two, and having it at our mercy in detail. Most of the 
men felt that this was a forlorn hope, but it was ours to obey, and 
with the fact constantly in mind that this was May 18th, just at 
day light, we reached the old battlefield. It was the field where 
in front of and close to the enemy, only a few days before, so many 
of our brave boys had given up their lives. 

The order was given and instantly responded to to charge over the 
breastworks. We went, capturing a few prisoners and a stand or 
two of colors. But the second line was impregnable, and the order 
came to halt and lie down. 



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We were in an open field, and soon the shells began to drop in 
thick and fast. One who has never heard the merry chorus of the 
sinews of war, the shriek of the minnie ball, and the ping pang of 
the grape and canister for the soprano ; the baritone of shot and shell ; 
the railroad iron and ram rods and the roar of distant cannon for 
bass ; with now and then a sweet scented solo consisting of a 
dismal, raw, unvarnished rebel yell, can have no conception of the 
effect upon one who has nothing to do but wait and watch from 
when they came and whither they go. 

I was the left guide of Company G and on my left was Captain 
Reuben E. Heacock of Company E of the 49th Regiment. We 
were lying side by side and a shell which was coming we thought 
would strike uncomfortably near. Just as it got within a few 
feet of us, so near, I believe, we might have reached it with our 
hands, right over our heads it burst and with the thought in my 
brain that this was the 18th of May, I became unconscious. But 
it was only for a few moments, it being the concussion more than 
anything that knocked me out, altho I still have a couple of scars for 
a reminder. 

It was different with poor Captain Heacock. A portion of the 
shell killed him and he was buried a day or so afterwards, on the 
spot where he laid beside me, by foemen and strangers. A few 
years later his body was removed to his home at Attica, New York. 
And the following poem which was read at the funeral tells the 
story : 

THE DEAD CAPTAIN 

By Anson G. Chester 

You have heard about the battle, 
With its clash and roar and rattle, 
That was fought with fiendish mania 
On the field of Spottsylvania. 

And you know that one we cherished 
In that fiery conflict perished, 
Lay all torn and grimed and gory — 
Such is war and such is glory. 

Ah, the tears of woe and pity 
That were shed in this good city, 
When for him the flags were shrouded, 
When the golden noon was clouded. 



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Where the rebel missiles laid him 
There a hasty grave was made him — 
Not by those who shed his danger, 
But the foeman and the stranger. 

They who oft had tried and proved him, 
They the gallant boys who loved him, 
Rough indeed, but tender hearted. 
Wept to leave the brave departed. 

Wept at what his daring cost him. 
Wept because they thus had lost him - 
Surely soldiers must be human 
When they weep and wail like women. 

On they passed and left him sleeping — 
Reapers must be ever reaping. 
But they better fought and grander 
Thinking of their dead commander. 

Many a Southern home was blighted, 
Ere that night the stars were lighted. 
Rebel corpses strewed the clover 
When that awful fight was over. 

In the grave the foemen made him, 
Where the hands of strangers laid him, 
Slept he till the war was ended. 
Till the dove of peace descended. 

From that ghastly field and bloody 
Bring they now the warrior's body, 
Home at last, o'er field and river, 
Home at last, and home for ever. 

Lay him, with our banner o'er him, 
By the child that went before him, 
By the bed where he reposes, 
One of amaranths and roses. 

Call thy roll, of fame, and listen, 
Even his dead eyes shall glisten, 
And his wonted voice, so pleasant, 
Give the ready answer. " Present." 



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DEGRADATION OF AN OFFICER FOR COWARDICE 

By Sergeant Alexander H. McKelvy, of Warren, Pennsylvania 

In my war diary under date of June 11, 1863, I find the following 

entry: ** Lieutenant of the 21st New Jersey Volunteers 

had his sword broken and was otherwise disgraced before the 
brigade, for cowardice." 

This affair took place while we were encamped on Falmouth 
Heights, below Fredericksburg, Virginia, and just before the move- 
ment towards Gettysburg took place, and the evening before the 
21st New Jersey Volunteers left for home by reason of expiration 
of the two years term of enlistment. 

It was currently reported that when our brigade charged up the 
heights behind Fredericksburg that beautiful Sabbath morning in 
May, that the fire from the enemy's guns was more than this young 
officer could bear, and that he took refuge behind a barn while his 
men went forward to assist in capturing those historic hills which 
had so fatally resisted the attack of the right wing of the army 
under General Sumner in the December previous. 

The Third Brigade was called out for dress parade at six p. m. 
and formed three sides of a huge square, the open side on the brow 
of the hill overlooking the Rappahannock River and the Confederate 
troops on the south side of the river. 

The armed guards came thru the rear line, conducting the 
prisoner, and halted in front of the general and his staff, when the 
adjutant general read the order in hearing of the brigade which 
was to the effect that the officer was dishonorably discharged from 
the service of the United States, and was to be publicly disgraced 
in the presence of his comrades of the Third Brigade. 

His face was white and his head uncovered, and he was attired in 
a fatigue uniform, wearing no shoulder straps to indicate his rank, 
but had on sword belt, sword and pistol. 

As he had no straps to be torn oft', the adjutant drew his sword 
from its scabbard and placed the point on the ground, then threw 
his weight on it in an attempt to break it, but it bent double without 
breaking, when General Neill, sitting on his horse, said, " Throw 
it aside," which was done, the pistol following and the belt taken off. 



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After an effort to unfasten it, the general remarked in a sotto voce, 
" Cut it off." 

The guards then faced the disgraced officer to the rear and 
took him away thru the ranks, never to be seen again by any 
of us who witnessed that scene. As for me, when I saw the look 
of shame and humiliation on the face of that young soldier, I felt 
that I would rather have died many times over, facing the enemy 
on the field of battle, than to have undergone that terrible ordeal. 

Poor fellow, perhaps he could not prevent it, and I have no 
condemnation for him, for I was not in that charge, and feel that 
my testimony would not be competent in that case. I simply give 
this incident as I recall it after a lapse of forty years, for the 
recording in our history as one of the events of war, cruel war. 



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Chapter XV 

SERGEANT McKELVY'S TRIBUTE TO GENERAL DAVIDSON 

BIDWELL 

Address at the Memorial Services held at Buffalo, New York, October 19, 

1914 

THE NAME OF Daniel Davidson Bidwell has been honored as 
citizen and soldier for three-fourths of a century. General 
Bidwell's active connection with the militia of the Empire 
State showed the bent of his mind toward things military, and when 
his country's flag was assailed by armed foemen, he at once 
threw himself into the conflict. The organization of the Second 
Buffalo Regiment was at once undertaken and carried to success by 
himself and brother officers and the patriotic citizens of Buffalo. 

The 49th New York Volunteers was a favored regiment, by 
having a man over us in whom we could — and did — place abso- 
lute confidence at all times, and especially when in action with the 
enemy. The feeling of resentment shown by green men over the 
relentless drill, which, in some cases assumed the form of threats, 
soon gave way to respect and confidence, and later affection, and 
it was not long until we looked upon him more as a father than a 
hard master. And when, in time, we came to face death, we well 
knew that the brave commander would never put us in any place 
where he would not accompany us, and from which he could not 
extricate us. I well recall his coolness and superb courage when 
under fire, and how he would — in his crisp manner of speech — 
admonish us to keep our heads down and our bodies covered. 

At Camp Lincoln, before Richmond, we were attacked, and in 
our rifle pit we were hugging dear old mother earth most affection- 
ately while the colonel erect and portly, with his sword tucked 
under his arm, walked back and forth on the edge of the trench 
with one eye on the enemy and the other on his boys, the personifi- 
cation of the well-poised and fearless soldier, and while the men 
were dodging and boring into the ground he walked among the 



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singing bullets and screeching shells as peacefully as if he were on 
his way to church. How he thrilled and inspired us by his magnifi- 
cent presence and bearing in times of great danger. Like the 
Scotch hero, Roderick Dhu : " One blast upon his bugle horn was 
worth a thousand men." 

Once when I was expecting a reprimand from him I was delighted 
by his asking me for information which I was able to give him. 

During the weary night march from Savage Station to White 
Oak Swamp, tired and discouraged, I threw myself down on a brush 
pile over a mud hole, and was awakened by a punch in the ribs and 
a yell in my ear to " get out of this, the Johnnies are coming." 
Well, I flew across White Oak Swamp bridge in the mad rush of 
men, supply and ambulance trains, as the pioneers were waiting to 
burn it to prevent the crossing of the enemy. 

I searched far and near for the regiment but got no trace or news 
of them till late in the afternoon, and after crossing the gory battle- 
field I found them on the rear guard and behind a fence overlooking 
a ridge, " watching and waiting "' for the enemy under Stonewall 
Jackson. 

Colonel Bidwell sat on the fence and as he saw me approaching 
the line he beckoned me to come to him. I thought I was to get my 
" calling down " for wanton straggling, but he seemed glad to see 
me, and then asked me where I had been and what I had seen 
of the battle on our left where the fighting had been very severe. 
Well, I told him how I had lost track of tlie regiment and that I 
had tried to make my way to the James River, thinking the division 
had advanced, and that I had met our trains coming back on the 
run, the drivers reporting that the Confederates had got between 
them and the river. 

He asked me several questions as to the situation, then told me to 
get my place in the ranks, which I most gladly did. One night at 
Camp Lincoln I was guard in front of General " Baldy " Smith's 
tent and along toward morning I got the fool idea in my head to 
clean up my musket, and just at daybreak, as 1 sat on a stone with 
the gun barrel across my knees and the other parts scattered on 
the ground, I was horrified by the general emerging from his tent 
and the arrival of his orderly with the horses. I learned later that 
he was in the habit of getting out at break of day to " ride the lines " 



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in front of his division. Not a word was spoken, but he gave me 
a stony glare as I sat on the stone which froze me stiff, and 
unsaluted by his sentry, he mounted his horse and galloped away 
to the front. 

When I was relieved from duty I was asked to call at Colonel 
Bidwell's tent, and on entering and saluting I was asked why I 
failed in my duty to the commanding general. Of course, I made 
the best defense I could which " also was vanity," and after a curt 
remark from the colonel, "Go to your quarters, sir, you are free 
for this time, but if I hear of any further breach of duty you will 
not get off so easily." I walked away, glad it was no worse. 

How merciful he was to us green lads and how carefully he 
looked after our every want and interest. As the ladies are wont to 
remark: " He was just dear." Colonel Bidwell was my beau ideal 
of a volunteer soldier, and he certainly captured the hearts of all 
his men. At the time of my wounding and capture in the autumn 
of '63 thru the recklessness of Major Ellis — the field officer of the 
Sixth Corps picket line — when he ordered me, sergeant in charge 
of the extreme left post, and Nick Wagner to follow him beyond 
the lines, and we not being able to keep up with his galloping horse, 
fell into the hands of Confederate cavalry, I afterwards learned from 
my brother that when the fact was known to Colonel Bidwell, he 
sent for Ellis and reprimanded him most severely for his part in 
the unfortunate affair. 

Had we been under the colonel instead of the major, that blunder 
would never have happened. I never got back to the regiment, but 
spent my third year of service in Libby prison and the hospitals at 
Annapolis Junction. I had been at home some three weeks when 
the battle at Cedar Creek took place and I received the sad news 
of the death of General Bidwell. 

In the year 1890, the Sixth Corps got together at Philadelphia and 
went to Winchester to dedicate a fine monument which had been 
erected to the memory of General David Allan Russell, who fell 
in the Battle of Winchester, while commanding a division of the 
Sixth Corps. I think I was the only member of the 49th New York 
Volunteers present on that occasion, and we spent three days in 
visiting the battlefields, and at Cedar Creek I had the great good 
fortune to meet General George Washington Getty, who was the 



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commander of the Second Division and commander of the Sixth 
Corps while General Horatio Gates Wright was temporarily in 
charge of the army, owing to Sheridan's absence. 

As we stood overlooking the field I asked him if he could tell me 
just where General Bidwell fell, and he replied : " I could take 
you to the exact spot now marked by a large boulder and which 
is about one mile from where we stand." I then asked him about 
the conduct of the old White Cross Division on that momentous 
occasion, and what they were doing when Sheridan arrived on the 
field. He said they were lying behind a slight ridge, and skirmishing 
with the enemy just back of Middletown, a small hamlet, and that 
the Second Division of the Sixth Corps, or the old White Cross 
Division, was the only considerable body of troops facing and hold- 
ing back the Confederates on that bloody field. 

And fifty busy momentous years have passed since that famous 
Battle of Cedar Creek, where our dear colonel sealed his patriotism 
with his life blood. His work was done and he was called home 
to be forever with the Lord, while we, his boys, are left for some 
good purpose, I trust and believe. 

May the beloved memory of that good friend, soldier and patriot 
inspire us to a nobler and more useful life. Comrade, sleep well, 
hail and farewell. 



RECOLLECTIONS OF THE WAR 

By Sergeant Norman R. Thompson, of Jamestown, New York 

Very vivid in my mind was the day in August, 1861, when a 
little band of us boys listened to the good-byes — and they were the 
last good-bye of many who went, as well as of many that remained — 
and bid farewell to the scenes of our childhood in the little village 
where I was born, and started for the war. Another was when we 
took our first march under our brave and beloved colonel, Daniel 
Davidson Bidwell, from Camp Porter in Buffalo to the depot. It 
seemed as tho the entire populace of BuflFalo and the surrounding 
country lined up on both sides of the streets thru which we marched. 

Another memorable time was June 16, 1862, when we were at 
Camp Lincoln on the right bank of the Chickahominy River in front 



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of the church spires of Richmond there came for us a beautiful silk 
flag presented to the regiment by the ladies of Bufifalo. The com- 
mand formed in hollow square and in the presence of General John 
Wynn Davidson and staff Colonel Bidwell presented the colors to 
the regiment with appropriate remarks, which was followed by 
rousing cheers of the soldiers. 

Inspired by Mrs. Abbey P. Heacock, the mother of Captain 
Reuben E. Heacock of Company E, nineteen ladies of Buffalo, who 
had lived on the Niagara frontier during the War of 1812, met at 
one another's homes and prepared this magnificent banner. Another 
one of these ladies was Mrs. Jane Harvey Bidwell, the mother of 
Colonel Bidwell. The others were Mrs. Esther P. Fox, Mrs. Par- 
nell St. John Sidway, Mrs. Katherine C. Warner, Mrs. Sarah M. 
Davidson, Mrs. Beulah G. Smith, Mrs. William Hodge, Miss Sarah 
Hodge, Mrs. Orlando Allen, Mrs. Walter W. Stannard, Mrs. Louisa 
C. Weed, Mrs. Sarah M. Judson, Mrs. Sophia Pratt Mrs. Fannie A. 
Lay, Mrs. Sarah T. Coburn, Mrs. Sarah D. Gilbert, Mrs. Mary P. 
Burt and Mrs. Miles Jones. 

This silk flag was of regimental size and had the name of the 
regiment gorgeously blazoned on its expanse. It was carried in the 
following engagements : Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Mal- 
vern Hill, Second Bull Run. South Mountain, Antietam, Fred- 
ericksburg, Marye's Heights Salem Church, Gettysburg, Fairfield, 
Funckstown, Rappahannock Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, 
Spottsylvania Court House, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Gurley 
House, Fort Stevens and Charlestown. 

On September 17, 1864, the three years for which the 49th 
Regiment enlisted expired, and at that time eighty-nine veterans 
returned to Buffalo to be mustered out. The morning this little band 
started for home Colonel Holt, who was then in command of the 
regiment, placed the tattered and bullet-holed flag in the custody 
of Sergeant Sumner A. Smith to return it to the patriotic ladies 
of Buffalo, saying it had done its duty and was now to go back 
to those who had remembered the boys in this cynosure of soldierly 
pride and ambition. On October 5, 1865, the colors of the 49th 
Regiment were deposited in the State Capitol at Albany. 

There was another flag, which was not of silk, but of bunting. It 
had been presented to the regiment in September, 1861, by Governor 



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Edwin Dennison Morgan on behalf of the State of New York. 
It was carried in these engagements : Lewinsville, Watts Creek, 
Young's Mills, Mechanicville and Golding's Farm. Then, when the 
beautiful silk banner arrived, it was laid aside and not used again 
until the silk banner had been practically shot to pieces, and returned 
to the patriotic ladies of Buffalo, who had made it. Then it was 
that the bunting flag was again unfurled and was carried in these 
engagements : Opequon, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and at the Fall 
of Petersburg. And proudly too, the old bunting flag was carried 
by the 49th Regiment at Appomattox Court House. 

My memory goes back to the memorable time in July, 1864, when 
Washington was in danger and the gallant Sixth Corps, of which 
the 49th Regiment formed a part, was hastily sent with all speed 
to the relief of the National Capital. President Lincoln met us at 
the Seventh Street wharf, and well we cheered him. We marched 
up Seventh street, which was lined on both sides with crowds almost 
crazed with fear, but when they saw the men wearing the Greek 
cross, fear seemed to give way to joy and on every hand you could 
hear the exclamations: " It's the old Sixth Corps." " These are the 
men who took Marye's Heights." " The danger is over now." 
Washington an hour before was in a panic, but when they saw the 
veterans of the Sixth Corps march up the street, excitement sub- 
sided and confidence prevailed. 

Far too little do the histories tell of the battle which ensued the 
next day at Fort Stevens, a battle which kept Early's hordes of 
Confederates from plundering or burning our seat of government. 
The British burned Washington during the War of 1812, and but 
for the timely arrival of the Sixth Corps just in the nick of time 
on the afternoon of July 11, 1864, the Confederates would have 
burned the city a second time. 

We of the 49th Regiment are very proud of this engagement at 
Fort Stevens, for our beloved Colonel Bidwell was in command 
of the attack which drove Early headlong from before the city and 
sent him flying up the Shenandoah Valley. Also the battle was 
fought under the eye of President Lincoln, the only battle of the 
war that our President witnessed. 

Many of these memories of the war are very tender and sad. I 
have in my possession a letter I received on May 24, 1864, from the 



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father of Captain Seward Harmon Terry of Company G, who was 
killed at the Bloody Angle at Spottsylvania Court House, May 12, 
1864. It would bring tears to your eyes to read it. It was written 
in reply to my letter of May 13th to him. telling him of the death 
of his son. After the war I visited Squire Terry at his home in 
Clymer, New York. He took me up to the cemetery and the old 
gray-haired man standing by the grave of his brave son, with 
tears running down his cheeks, told me how great a sacrifice it was 
for him to part with his boy, who had enrolled when only twenty- 
three years of age. 

Our regiment lost more heavily at the Bloody Angle, May 12, 1864, 
than during any other engagement of the war. How trying was 
our duty on May 13th to write home to the relatives of the slain, 
telling them of the sad news. A few days later much mail came to 
camp for us and some of it were letters addressed to our dead 
comrades. But they would never read letters written to them from 
their homes here, for they had gone to the great home beyond. 

When the cruel war was over how glad we, who were left, were 
to return to our homes. It seemed like going back to God's country. 
The Civil War was our country's great convulsion, but righteousness 
triumphed, and let us hope our nation will never experience another 
one. 

THE MARCH OF THE GALLANT SIXTH CORPS 

There were whispers of danger in Washington town, 
There were murmurs of fear of a foe coming down 
From the sheltering Maryland hills on the North, 
Like a tiger searching for his prey rushing forth, 
There was flying in haste with the treasures of wealth ! 
There was hiding of moneys and jewels in stealth! 
There was massing of crowds on Potomac's fair shore, 
For they knew not that near was the gallant Sixth Corps. 

To the national chiefs there were hours of suspense ; 
There was a rushing of men to the lines of defence. 
The militia untried and the hospital guest, 
The civihan with little of fight in his breast. 
And the President stood at the front of the line, 
By the guns of Fort Stevens, as if to divine 
If the foe could be held but an hour or more, 
For he knew of the march of the gallant Sixth Corps. 



158 History of the 49th Regiment 

There was cavalry there, but their horses were not, 
Yet they made with their carbines a fight that was hot. 
And they drove off the men of the enemy's hosts 
That were picking off gunners and guards at their posts. 
But the chieftains well knew that the valiant display 
That they made of opposing the enemy's way 
Was pretense that might melt at a battle line's roar, 
And they longed for the guns of the gallant Sixth Corps. 

To the front in Virginia the word was rushed down 
For the Sixth Corps to haste to the capital town. 
The assembly was sounded and quickly they sped 
To defend the fair home of the government's head; 
Not a moment was lost as they hurried away, 
Over hills, down the James, into Chesapeake Bay, 
Up the river Potomac, to Washington's shore, 
Where the nation awaited the gallant Sixth Corps. 

From the river to Brightwood the march was begun, 
Many miles in the dust and midsummer sun ; 
Thru the city's rude streets, often greeted with cheers, 
And, by patriots anxious and fearful, with tears ; 
For the cause of the Union in peril then lay. 
Seemed hanging in doubt on events of the day, 
And they knew it would rally, triumphant, once more. 
As they witnessed the march of the gallant Sixth Corps. 

Then away from the city and up the rough roads. 

Past the line of deserted suburban abodes ; 

Up hills steep and wearisome, onward they went. 

All their hearts on the sight of the enemy bent; 

Never slacking their speed for refreshment or rest, 

To the line of battle they eagerly pressed. 

And the President hailed them as never before, 

As he saw the swift march of the gallant Sixth Corps. 

Thru the night on their guns they secured the repose 
That they needed to charge their fresh, confident foes ; 
But at break of morn they were quickly awake. 
And their place on the battlefield ready to take ; 
Then assembly was sounded, the battle line formed. 
And the line of the menacing enemy stormed ; 
But the foe soon recovered the Hags that they bore. 
And fled at the march of the gallant Sixth Corps. 

Then the battle became a victorious rout. 
And it ended at last in a glad, ringing shout. 
From the line of defence round the capital bent, 
And the citizens cheered, for they knew what it meant ; 
But for those who laid down their young lives on that day. 
We the sweetest of flowers on their couches will lay ; 
In our hearts we will cherish, with pride, evermore, 
The brave boys in the march of the gallant Sixth Corps. 



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The above poem was read by Doctor Calver of the Sixth Corps 
Association at the Battleground Cemetery, Washington, D. C. July 
12, 1904, on the occasion of the dedication of a monument erected 
by the survivors of the 122d New York Volunteers in memory of 
their comrades who fell in the Battle of Fort Stevens. The 122d 
Regiment was in the Third Brigade of the Second Division, Sixth 
Corps, and this brigade, under command of Colonel Bidwell, charged 
Early's Confederate forces and under the eye of President Lincoln 
drove them from the field. 



ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE 49th 
REGIMENTAL MONUMENT AT THE BLOODY ANGLE 
SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE. VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 
9. 1902 

By William Mulkie, of Corry, Pennsylvania 

Not until this moment was I aware that I would be called on to 
say anything on this occasion. I am no speechmaker, yet had I 
known a few hours earlier, I might have arranged my thoughts in 
a manner that would have been more pleasing to my listeners, and 
more satisfactory to myself. Under no circumstances, however, 
could I have made a brilliant speech. 

First, I wish to say this : I see before me many people of this 
section of the country. I am glad you are taking an interest in the 
dedication of our monument, for to me it means friendliness. The 
last time we were here, forty years ago, in place of a loaded table 
shown us, it was a loaded gun, muzzle foremost. 

But I am reminded that the chairman called upon me to say 
something in regard to what happened here forty years ago, as I 
remember the events. Beginning at the commencement of that 
campaign, we crossed the Rapidan River at Germanna Ford late 
in the afternoon of May 4. 1864. On the morning of the 5th, taking 
the old Culpepper pike southeasterly, we reached the neighborhood 
of Wilderness Tavern. General Getty, leaving his Third Brigade, 
to which the 49th Regiment belonged, led his First and Se^'cond 
Brigades up this way, until we reached the Brock Road, and then 
turned south on the Brock Road. General Getty and Major Hyde 
were in advance. I was in the second file of men behind them. 
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160 History of the 49th Regiment 

When we reached a point thirty rods in this direction from the 
Germanna plank road we were fired on by the enemy from the west 
side of the Brock Road. Major Hyde soon double-quicked the 
pioneers ahead, right-faced and forwarded us into the thick woods. 
We soon had the enemy brushed away and our First and Second 
Brigades passed on up to the intersection of the Brock and Orange 
Court House plank roads. This was the first opening shot by our 
infantry in that campaign so far as I know. It was less than a half 
mile to the Orange Court House plank road, where one of the most 
fierce and deadly struggles began, continuing until nightfall of the 
6th. 

When we left that place, known to us as the Wilderness, on the 
night of the 7th, we took the old pike road leading towards 
Chancellorsville, near which we turned south after crossing the Ny 
River at about the Catharpin furnace, when we took the direct road 
for Spottsylvania Court House, camping on the night of the 8th 
south of the Pine Tree Meeting House. I will hurriedly pass over 
the 9th and 10th, only pausing to say that our regiment took part 
in Colonel Upton's wonderful forlorn hope charge, which gained 
advanced ground and captured many guns and prisoners, but not 
being supported, we were forced to leave the guns, altho we brought 
away the prisoners. Our regiment lost quite severely in this 
engagement. 

Very early on the morning of the 11th, under the leadership of 
Major Hyde, about sixty of us passed along the ridge (pointing to 
the place) easterly, as an escort to one of General Meade's stafif 
officers, in search of General Burnside's Corps. After passing those 
chimneys yonder, about half a mile, we came in sight of his wagon 
train, and nearing some of the wagons we stacked our guns. About 
two hours later we started back, taking the same route. I am enter- 
ing into the details of my experience that day, in order to remove 
any doubt you may have of the identity of the location. While 
passing the house that stood where those chimneys now stand (point- 
ing to them), we discovered some Johnnies' outposts at this salient 
angle. At the house we found a lone woman, one of the real 
motherly sort. I am sorry she is not here to-day. I am told she 
would have been but for a funeral she is attending. I asked her 
about the enemy we had seen, " Yes," she said, " there is a smart 



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lot of them over there." We found out early next morning that she 
told the truth. 

Long before daylight of the 12th, we were again following Major 
'Hyde down this way, again passing around to the rear of that house, 
where the woods road leads out to the Fredericksburg road. At 
the edge of the woods, some twenty rods the other side of the house 
from here, we stacked our guns, and, dividing into small parties, 
commenced repairing and widening the road. As I remember it, it 
was between nine and ten o'clock when the greater number of us 
were returning to our guns and had just emerged from the woods 
when I saw thousands of Confederates coming towards us. We 
immediately took our guns and deployed along the edge of the 
woods to prevent them from entering. It was not long before the 
four or five thousand prisoners taken in the charge, that history 
gives all the credit of to the Second Corps, were corralled, with 
the help of some provost guards and a few cavalrymen, who came 
to our assistance. We then came out this way, up thru that low 
ground (pointing to it), and turning to the other side of yonder 
high ground, passed a short piece of work and on until we reached 
some extensive works that had been captured from the enemy. We 
began at once changing them and continued building and strengthen- 
ing lines over those woods until nearly daylight. 

At daybreak on the morning of the 13th, the desperate fighting of 
the previous day and night had ceased, the enemy having withdrawn 
their lines. I came over here expecting to find my company. They 
had withdrawn from the line and others had taken their places. But 
I found plenty of evidence that they had been here and of the 
desperate conflict they had helped to wage. Sherman said, " War 
is hell." Looking at the dead lying over there, just in front of this 
line, and the dear comrades and officers of my company lying here 
and back there, I think he did not put it too strong. We are told 
that our little brigade fired one hundred and thirty-three rounds of 
ammunition to the man, and kept at bay, five distinct and separate 
charges that were made to recapture the angle. 

Some idea as to the truth of this statement may be formed 
when we think of that oak tree, some fifteen inches thru, the 
stump of which can be seen by any visitor at the National 



162 History of the 49th Regiment 

Museum at Washington. This tree was up twenty-two feet out- 
side of yonder line of works and within sixty feet of the monu- 
ment we this day dedicate to the memory of those tried and true 
men of our regiment, who, under the fierce showers of minnie balls, 
laid down their lives to save their country. 

I found Sergeant Elijah H. Shippee lying cold in death. He 
had but a few days before received a minnie ball thru the fleshy 
part of the arm, and carrying it in a sling, had, with the others, 
carried an ax and coffee kettle, trying to be of some service in 
making coffee for his comrades. When the regiment was called 
to make the charge which brought them across here, he threw 
down the kettle and went forward to the works, which as yet, 
consisted of bare logs, and under and between them he wielded 
his ax on the enemy, who so stubbornly defended their position 
for a long time before they were forced to retreat. In the mean- 
time Shippee was like an avenging spirit, continuing to deal 
crushing and deadly blows, baring his breast to the enemy's 
bullets and bayonets' thrusts. There he lay with half a dozen 
holes in his body. Who shall say such a man is dead? Lives 
he not in the deed engraved high on fame's escutcheon, the 
bravest of the brave? 

Not much less I can say of my captain, Seward Harman Terry, 
Lieutenant Mortimer Le Verne Tyler, Gilbert D. Harris, Dayton 
R. Leland, and many others of my company and regiment, who 
fought to the finish here, with an indomitalile spirit of devotion 
to their country. Over there, on that low ground, in the same 
grave, side by side as they had fought and struggled, we buried 
three of the bravest of the brave. They died as patriot soldiers 
wish to die ; proudly they consecrated their lives to the cause 
of human liberty ; side by side we laid them to rest, until they 
hear the last welcome call. 

They were soldiers fit to stand by Caesar, 
Each of merit, has each honored name 
To shine untarnished on the rolls of fame 
And add new luster to the historic page ! 

With a sad heart I turned from the scenes around me and wept 
as I walked away, to resume my duties as a soldier. After this 



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conflict Company G was unable to stack more than seven 
muskets, having no officers left to command. The roll was never 
again called, the few members remaining were consolidated in 
Company A. 

Referring again to our visiting friends of this section, the time 
was, when each of us maligned the other's character and impugned 
the other's motives. This was largely due, however, to news- 
papers and the intriguing men of that time. The battle fought 
at this place helped to make us a nation of greater power and 
intelligence. Our duty now is to help preserve the peace, happi- 
ness and prosperity we are enjoying at home, and continue to 
hold the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach 
us the necessity of the first; our power secures us the second. 
Forty years ago the North and South were comparatively 
strangers, now we are acquainted. Designing politicians of 
that day forced the two great factions of our nation to gather, 
face to face, with drawn swords and fixed bayonets and measure 
their strength. It was a war between giants. The scenes that 
occurred on this field, tho deadly and dreadful as we have 
depicted them, were repeated on many other fields; Bull Run 
and Appomattox, and thousands of the bravest soldiers that ever 
trod the earth were sacrificed on the altar of their country. 

It is fitting that we should erect monuments to their memory. 
Comrades, let us rejoice that we have lived to see the Mason 
and Dixon line erased from the maps of a once more united 
country, and that the same " Old Glory " flag is upheld, and is 
respected alike by both the Blue and the Gray. I am ready to 
shake the hand of any good ex-Confederate soldier, and to do 
my share to preserve our American home and principles. Let 
us be friends for evermore. 



164 History of the 49th Regiment 



ADDRESS OF SERGEANT ALEXANDER H. McKELVY. PRESI- 
DENT OF THE 49th REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION, AT 
THE DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT AT THE 
BLOODY ANGLE. SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE. 
OCTOBER 9, 1902 

Comrades : We are assembled here on one of the great battle- 
fields of the Civil War for a purpose entirely proper and com- 
mendable, and worthy of the organization of which we are proud 
to be known as members. 

We have journeyed here from the far Pacific coast, from the 
great lakes, rivers and valleys, cities and towns of our beloved 
country. 

And for what have we left our various vocations, professions 
and trades? Let this silent shaft inscribed on its four sides tell 
the story. 

Forty-one comrades of our grand old regiment, the 49th New 
York Volunteers, fell here and gave up those lives, so dear, so 
precious to their families and friends, for their country's defense, 
and now, thirty-eight years after the great sacrifices, we, a few 
of their comrades, meet here to honor their memory by the 
erection of this granite witness to their patriotism. 

Yes, their names are here writ in stone, but this stone will 
crumble and decay, and in the course of time will disappear from 
the face of the earth, but as long as human history shall last, 
as long as the great Republic of the West shall hold an honored 
place in the list of nations, as long as men and women cherish 
the ideas of patriotism, self-sacrifice and splendid devotion to a 
righteous cause, so long shall worship here be fostered, and the 
memories of those great heroes be loved and revered. 

In the language of the immortal Lincoln, in substance, " It 
will matter little what we say here, but the subject that concerns 
us all is, what they did here." Brave boys, you did your work 
here, you made your supreme effort, you failed not in duty, 
1)Ut you nobly performed your part in the great conllict, and 
then gathered your drapery around you, laid down in a soldier's 
grave to dream of a glorious and united country over which 



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your beloved banner should wave from east to west, from north 
to south. 

Honest, faithful comrades, " After life's fiful fever you sleep 
well." Sleep on and take your rest while we linger at your side. 
Not forgetting for one moment the cause for which you died. 

And now they sleep so stately, 

Each in his graveyard bed. 
So calmly, so sedately 

They rest, that once I said : 
These men are dead. 

The night-time and the day-time, 

The rise and set of sun, 
The winter and the May-time, 

To them whose work is done, 
Are all as one. 

Then o'er mine eyes there floated 

A vision of the land 
Where their brave souls, promoted 

To Heaven's own armies, stand 
At God's right hand. 

From out the mighty distance 

I seemed to see them gaze 
Back on their old existence. 

Back on the battle blaze 
Of war's dread days. 

The flowers shall fade and perish 

In larger faith, spake I, 
But these dear names we cherish 

Are written in the sky, 
And cannot die. 



Muster Roll 



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MUSTER ROLL OF THE FORTY-NINTH REGI- 
MENT, NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS 

AcHEON, Charles — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, March 17, 1863, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

AcKERLY, Ffxix — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 
4, 1861 ; discharged, no date. 

Adams, Jacob — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 

4, 1861; discharged, March 19, 1863, at White Oak Church. Virginia. 
Adams, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, February 20, 1864, at Niagara, 

to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, February 22, 
1864; wounded in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Virginia. 

Adams, Samuel — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action. 
May 3, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia ; died of his wounds, December 
29, 1863, at Palmyra, New York. 

Affoltek, Samuel — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 
1861 : discharged for disability, September 18, 1862, at Providence, Rhode 
Island. 

Akins, Johx — x\ge, 40 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company E, September 13, 1864; mustered out, 
to date, June 21, 1865, at Buffalo, New York. 

Alberger, William Clendenin — Age, 24 years. Enrolled, September 18, 
1861, at New Y'ork City, to serve three years ; mustered in as lieutenant 
colonel, September 10, 1861; wounded in action, September 17, 1862, at 
Antietam, Maryland; discharged for disability, December 10, 1862; prior 
service as captain, Twenty-first New York Infantry; commissioned lieu- 
tenant colonel, January 20, 1862, with rank from September 18, 1861, 
original. 

Allen, Andrew J. — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years : mustered in as private. Company E, September 

5, 1861; promoted sergeant, January 1, 1863; sergeant major, March 1, 
1863; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Allen, George ]\I. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 30, 1861, at Forcst- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 

6, 1861 ; discharged, no date, from hospital. 

Allen, Jam^^.s — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered as private, Company D, August 27, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a 
veteran, December 25, 1863; promoted corporal, April 1, 1864; wounded in 

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action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; promoted sergeant. May 
12. 1864; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; promoted first 
sergeant, January 1, 1865; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Allen, Joseph — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; died of typhoid fever, June 4, 1862, at Baltimore, Maryland. 

Allman, John — Age, Zl years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Alteman, John Peter — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Lockport, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 10, 1864; no 
further record. 

Altum, William — Age, 31 years. Enlisted at Jamestown, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company K, November 18, 1861 ; 
deserted, June 27, 1862, at Savage Station, Virginia. 

Alverson, Nathan F. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at 
Forestville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, Sep- 
tember 10, 1861; died of typhoid fever, June 21, 1862, at New York City. 

Amidon, John N. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
transferred to Company I November 1, 1861 ; discharged for disability, 
February 10. 1864. 

Anderson, Adolph — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Utica, to serve three 
years ; mustered in as private. Company B, February 3, 1865 ; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Anderson, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
6, 1861 ; sent to United States Flospital, Germantown, Pennsylvania, July 
2, 1863 ; no further record. 

Andrews, James M. — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Veteran Reserve 
Corps, March 15, 1864; mustered out, July 14, 1865, as of Company G, 
Sixth Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, at Cleveland, Ohio. 

Andrews, Robert — Age, 38 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company C, September 17, 1864; absent, 
sick, in hospital, at muster out of company. 

Anglicker, Bernard — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 3, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 
1861; discharged for disability, January 15, 1863;, at White Oak Church, 
Virginia. 

Annis, Alonzo — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; mustered out, June 
16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Ai'LiN, Horace W. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran. December 14, 1863 ; transferred to 



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Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Apthorp, Thomas — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, Septem- 
ber 10, 1861 ; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House. Virginia; died of his wounds, June 21, 1864, at General Hospital, 
Alexandria, Virginia. 

Arbor, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years; 
and mustered in as private. Company E, September 16, 1862; wounded in 
action, May 10, 1864, near Spottsylvania, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Arkison, Thomas — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Ash- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany A, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. 

Armenslo, John — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Ashville, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, December 12, 1862. 

Armstrong, George — ^Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company F, September 2, 1861 ; deserted, 
September 10, 1861, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Armstrong, William — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; wounded in action, April 2, 1865, near Petersburg, Virginia; 
discharged, June 3, 1865, at Stanton Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Arnold, Lucius — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany D, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, March 16, 1865; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

AsPELL, James — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Atherly, Rollin D. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Ash- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 
1861; transferred to Company K, November 1, 1861; re-enlisted as a 
veteran, December 14, 1863 ; transferred to Company D. September 17, 
1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Austin, William H. — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as wagoner, Company D, Sep- 
tember 10, 1861 ; discharged for disability, April 21, 1862. 

Babcock, Amos — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; promoted corporal. May 14. 1865; mustered out, June 16, 
1865, with detachment, at Washington. D. C. 



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Bacon, Edwin — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Bufifalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; captured in action, May 6, 

1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company C, September 
17, 1864; paroled, no date; died, January 6, 1865, at Camp Parole, Annap- 
olis, Maryland. 

Bacon, Leander — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
sick in hospital, April 30, 1863; discharged, no date. 

Bagley, Alonzo — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, June 16, 

1865, with detachment, at Washington, D. C. 

Bagnall, Samuel A. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1862; promoted sergeant, September 1, 1864; transferred to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; promoted commissary sergeant, September 18, 1864; 
mustered out, June 16, 1865, with detachment, at Washington, D. C. 

Bailey, Henry — Age, 22 jears. Enlisted at Eden, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company B, March 31, 1865; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bailey, Nelson — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, Septem- 
ber 3, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bailey, Willard W. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 23, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Sep- 
tember 24, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, February 11, 1864; transferred 
to Company E, September 17, 1864; absent, sick in hospital at muster out 
of company. 

Baker, Charles — Age, 15 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as fifer, Company G, September 13, 1861 ; re-enlisted 
as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Company A, September 17, 
1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Baker, Frank — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Company H, August 31, 
1861; promoted sergeant, March 30, 1862; captured in action, October 10, 
1863, at Cedar Mountain, Virginia; paroled, March 21, 1864; mustered 
out, October 10, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Baker, James A.— Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861; promoted corporal. May 1, 1862; wounded in action, Decem- 
ber 14, 1862, at Fredericksburg, Virginia ; died of his wounds, January 20, 
1863, at Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Baker, Jerome P.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12. 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company A, August 
24, 1861 ; promoted corporal, no date ; died of disease, November 12, 1862. 



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Baker, John G. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company I, November 14, 1861 ; dis- 
charged, October 7, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Baldwin, Ebenezer — Age, 39 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861; discharged for disability, April 29, 1862. 

Ball, Samuel — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company A, June 2, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Ballard, John — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company B, February 22, 1865 ; mus- 
tered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Ballou, Schuyler S. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Lockport, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as musician. Company H, September 16, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; transferred to Company E, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Ballou, Stephen D. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Septem- 
ber 13, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred to 
Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Banker, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Portches- 
ter, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 
20, 1861 ; wounded in action. May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; dis- 
charged for his wounds, October 8, 1864. 

Banker, William — Age, Z] years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861; deserted, September 15, 1863, at South Mountain, Mary- 
land. 

Baquet, Nicholas — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, September 
7, 1861 ; killed in action, July 6, 1863, at Fairfield, Pennsylvania. 

Barbauld, Barton C— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 
28, 1861 ; missing in action, June 27. 1862, on retreat to Harrison's Land- 
ing, Virginia; no further record. 

Barbell, George — Age. — years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, January 10, 1863; discharged 
for disability, March 26, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Barber, Frank W. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, Septem- 
ber 9, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 9, 1862, at Convalescent 
Camp, Alexandria, Virginia. 

Barbour, George W.— Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Stock- 
ton, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 
1861; discharged for disability, July 26, 1862. 



174 History of the 49th Regiment 

Barhman, John — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 4, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran December 16, 1863 ; transferred to Company C, 
September 17, 1864; no further record. 

Barger, Fred C. — Age, 19 years. Enrolled, August 8, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company G, August 30, 
1861; promoted second lieutenant, April 29, 1862; mustered in as first 
lieutenant, September 2, 1862; wounded in action, December 13, 1862, at 
Fredericksburg, Virginia; discharged by order of the Secretary of War 
on account of disability from wounds received in action, May 11, 1864; 
commissioned second lieutenant. May 19, 1862, with rank from April 29, 
1862, vice S. H. Terry, promoted; first lieutenant, November 11, 1862, with 
rank from September 2, 1862, vice Terry, promoted. 

Barlow, Henry E. — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Som- 
erset, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company H. Septem- 
ber 13, 1861 ; discharged for disability, November 12, 1862, at General Hos- 
pital, Annapolis, Maryland. 

Barnard, Selah E. — Age, 34 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, August 31, 1861 ; deserted, 
September 19, 1861, at Park Barracks, New York City. 

Barnes, James — Age, 39 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company D, June 13, 1864; transferred to 
Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 21, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Barnes, Joseph — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Medina, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 13, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; deserted, July 16, 1864, 
at Leesburg, Virginia. 

Barnes, William H. — Age, ZZ years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company F, January 29, 1862; died of 
disease, November 9, 1862, at hospital, Hagerstown, Maryland. 

Barney, Thomas — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 15, 1863; captured in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany A, September 17, 1864; absent, prisoner of war, at muster out of 
company. 

Barray, Garret — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 
31, 1861; discharged for disabihty, April 28, 1862, at Washington, D. C; 
subsequent service in Company M, First Artillery. 

Bartell, John R. — Private, Thirty-third Infantry; captured in action, 
May 3, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; transferred to Company E, this 
regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company C, September 17, 1864; paroled, no 
date ; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Bartholomew, Harley — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal. Company K, 
September 18, 1861 ; returned to ranks in September, 1862 ; promoted cor- 



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poral in March, 1863; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New 
York. 

Bartholomew, Perry — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company K, 
September 18, 1861; discharged for disability, December 30, 1861. 

Bartlett, Albert A. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 
24, 1861; wounded in action, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland; 
discharged for wounds, April 3, 1863. 

Barton, Amasa F. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
died of typhoid fever, September 21, 1862, in Satterlee Hospital, Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania. 

Barton, David — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Mina, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, no date, at hospital, Georgetown, D. C. 

Barton, Ephraim — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 24, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, October 25, 1862 ; 
transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with com- 
pany, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Barton, Jesse — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Company C, 
September 17, 1864; dishonorably discharged, June 17, 1865. 

Bateman, Junior, Michael — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, 
at Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, 
August 28, 1861; deserted, September 19, 1861, at Park Barracks, New 
York City. 

Baylis, Jefferson — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, August 31, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Baylis, John R. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; promoted corporal, March 3, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, Decem- 
ber 26, 1863; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Beach, Cyrus — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 18, 
1861; transferred to First New York Independent Battery, December 11, 
1863. 

Beach, Henry N. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 20, 1862. 

Beach, Loomis J. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 18, 1862, at Ellery, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 9, 
1862; discharged for disability, January 9, 1863, at camp near White Oak 
Church, Virginia. 

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176 History of the 49th Regiment 

Beach, Walter A. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 
1861 ; discharged for accidental wound, October 4, 1862, at Bakersville, 
Maryland. 

Beach, William E. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 
1861 ; promoted corporal, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 
1863; promoted sergeant, April 25, 1864; transferred to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Vir- 
ginia; promoted first sergeant, June 17, 1865; mustered out with company, 
June 21, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bear, Samuel — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company F, January 29, 1862 ; transferred to 
Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged, January 29, 1865. 

Beatson, Boswell — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, same date ; discharged, October 23, 1862, at Fortress 
Monroe, Virginia ; again enlisted and mustered in as private. Company E, 
January 2, 1864; promoted sergeant, April 25, 1864; no further record. 

Beatson, Junior, Robert — Age, 18 j^ears. Enlisted, Junuary 29, 1864, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, Janu- 
ary 30, 1864; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; killed in 
action, September 19, 1864, at Opequon, Virginia. 

Beattie, George — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Orange, to serve one year, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, February 22, 1865 ; no further 
record. 

Becker, Alexander — ^Age, 43 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company B, September 13, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Invalid Corps, December 15, 1863; discharged, June 29, 1865, at 
Albany, New York. 

Bedell, Charles P. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, December 18, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company I, Decem- 
ber 28, 1861; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered 
out' with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Beedle, John — First ser-^eant. Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company I, this regiment, as sergeant, October 1, 1863; 
promoted. May 3, 1864, to first lieutenant. One Hundred and Eighth New 
York Volunteers. 

,'Beehler, Frank — .\ge, 24 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to' serve' three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
w^oundcd in action. May 10, 1864, near Spottsylvania Court I louse, Virginia; 
discharged, August 23, 1864, at Rochester, New York. 

Bego, John — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred to 
Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action. May 10, 
1864, near Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 



New York Volunteers 177 

Behle, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, February 3, 1863, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, February 26, 1862 ; 
discharged February 3, 1865. 

Behr, Andrew — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 30, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 31, 
1861; deserted in IMay, 1862, at Buffalo. New York. 

Bell, Alexander — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Sheldon, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company G, July 20, 1864; transferred 
to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bell, Lewis — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; transferred 
to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bennett, Lewis — Age, 33 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, April 26, 1864; transferred 
to Company C, September 17, 1864; killed in action, September 19, 1864, 
at Opequon, Virginia. 

Bennett, Stephen M. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, 
September 18, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; wounded 
in action, July 12, 1864, near Fort Stevens, D. C. ; transferred to Company 
D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, August 12, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Bennett, Thomas — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
June 2, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Virginia; discharged with detachment, June 
16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Benchley, Hayden — Age, 33 years. Enlisted at Jamestown, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company K, November 18, 1861 ; 
discharged, November 20, 1862. 

Benson, Henry — Age, 50 years. Enrolled, February 5, 1863, at Albany, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as chaplain, February 17, 1863 ; mustered 
out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York ; commissioned chaplain, Feb- 
ruary 18, 1863, with rank from February 5, 1863, vice John Bowman, 
resigned. 

Benson, Horace R. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; re-enlistcd as a veteran, December 13, 1863; died of small-pox, 
December 23, 1863. at Brandy Station, Virginia. 

Benson, Robert P. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 27, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1862; piomoted corporal, August 15, 1863; wounded in action. May 10, 
1864, near Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; transferred to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; returned to ranks, April 1, 1865; no record subsequent 
to April 30, 1865. 



178 History of the 49th Regiment 

Benzinger, Conrad — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company B, August 28, 1862; discharged 
for disability, September 17, 1863, at Convalescent Camp, Virginia. 

Benzinger, Ferdinand — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 
28, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, May 12, 1864, at Spott- 
sylvania Court House, Virginia; absent, wounded, at muster out of company. 

Berg, H. Henry — Age, 31 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company H, October 1, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, 
June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bergman, Jacob — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company G, July 14, 1864; transferred 
to Company D, September 17, 1864; wounded, October 19, 1864, at Cedar 
Creek Virginia ; absent, sick in hospital, at muster out of company. 

Berndt, Mathias — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 
1861 ; promoted corporal, February 1, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, 
December 16, 1863 ; killed in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia. 

Beyer, George — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company H, November 29, 1862; deserted, 
July 17, 1863, at Boonsboro, Maryland. 

Beyer, George — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 24, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, September 26, 
1861 ; died of disease, November 5, 1862, at Third Division Hospital, Alex- 
andria, Virginia. 

BiCKFORD, Myron H. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 
1861 ; died of typhoid fever, no date, at. Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

BiDWELL, Charles Howell — Age, 20 years. Enrolled, September 16, 
1861, at Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant, 
Company F, October 21, 1861 ; as first lieutenant, October 22, 1861 ; dis- 
charged for disability, June 21, 1862; prior service as sergeant. Company 
B, Twenty-first New York Infantry ; not commissioned second lieutenant ; 
commissioned first lieutenant, January 20, 1862, with rank from October 
21, 1861, original. 

BiDWELL, Daniel Davidson — Age, 42 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, 
at Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as colonel, October 21, 1861 ; 
mustered out, August 18, 1864; appointed brigadier general; killed at 
Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864. Commissioned colonel. January 
20, 1862, with rank from September 18, 1861, original. 

Bingenheimer, Philip — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company B, November 10, 1862; 
deserted, July 15, 1863, at Boonsboro, Maryland. 

Birch, Zebeler — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 18, 




General Bidwell Monument in Forest Lawn Cemetery, 
Buffalo, New York 



New York Volunteers 179 

1861 ; captured in action, October 15, 1863, near Fairfax Court House, Vir- 
pnia; paroled. May 12, 1864; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, 
New York. 

Blackmen, Benjamin F.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 
28, 1861 ; discharged for disability, November 27, 1862, at Alexandria, 
Virginia. 

Blakeslie, Henry D. — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 
31, 1861 ; discharged for disability, March 10, 1862, at Camp Griffin, 
Virginia. 

Bliss, Wiluam T. — Age, 32 years. Enrolled, August 4, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, no date ; mustered in as second lieutenant, Company 
F, October 9, 1862; dismissed, to date June 16, 1863. Commissioned sec- 
ond lieutenant, October 24, 1862, with rank from October 6, 1862, vice Ris- 
ley H. Brigham, resigned. 

Blodgett, Alonzo F. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at 
Fredonia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861 ; died of fever, September 27, 1862, at Mill Creek, Virginia. 

Bloomfield, William — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company F, September 22, 1861 ; died 
of disease, September 25, 1862, at hospital, Annapolis Junction, Maryland. 

Boast, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company I, January 30, 1864; killed in action. 
May 5, 1864, at Wilderness, Virginia. 

BoDEMANN, Christian — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 31, 1863; wounded in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

BoEHM, Henry — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company B, September 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted 
as a veteran, December 16, 1863; killed in trenches by sharpshooters, June 
5, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Virginia. 

BoiCE, Richard — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

BoLAND, George — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, October 6, 1862; sergeant, February — , 1863; first ser- 
geant, December 5, 1863; returned to ranks, April 25, 1864; promoted 
first sergeant, no date; captured in action, June 25, 1864, at Ream's Station, 
Virginia; paroled and discharged, no dates. True name, Michael P. 
Walsh. 

Bolster, Amos S.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company A, September 



180 History of the 49th Regiment 

9, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; promoted corporal, 
August 24, 1864; sergeant, April 22, 1865; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bolton, Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 
24, 1861; deserted, July 17, 1863, at Hagerstown, Maryland. 

BoNAMAN, Henry — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 15, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
20, 1861; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

BoNTA, Jacob — Age, 33 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company E, January 3, 1863 ; deserted, June 
1, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

BooNE, William C. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Septem- 
ber 14, 1861 ; died of disease, October 28, 1862, at Hagerstown, Maryland. 

BooRN, Charles N. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 18, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861; promoted corporal, August IS, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, Decem- 
ber 16, 1863 ; wounded in action, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; 
transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; died, November 22, 1864, 
in hospital. 

BoRCHARD, Edward — Age 19 years. Enlisted, January 16, 1864, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, January 19, 
1864; wounded in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; dis- 
charged for disability, no date ; veteran. 

BoRCHERDT, JuLius C. — Age, 22 years. Enrolled, August 20, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company B, August 
22, 1861 ; promoted hospital steward, September 24, 1861 ; mustered in as 
second lieutenant. July 12, 1862; mustered out, to date. October 18, 1864, 
at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. Commissioned second lieutenant, 
August 30, 1862, with rank from July 11, 1862, vice Emil Koehler, resigned. 

Bosco, Neale — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 5, 1864; no further record. 

Boss, Henry S. — Private, Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred to Com- 
pany K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to One Hundred and Twelfth 
Company, Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, February 18, 1864. 

BouGHTON. William De Lancey — Age, 22 years. Enrolled, September 
10, 1861, at Lockport, to serve three years; mustered in as first sergeant. 
Company H, September 16, 1861 ; promoted second lieutenant, March 30, 
1862; mustered in as first lieutenant, August 3, 1862; wounded in action, 
May 4, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia; mustered out October 18, 1864, 
at Buffalo, New York. Commissioned second lieutenant, April 5, 1862, 
with rank from March 30, 1862, vice Henry D. Hall, promoted; first lieu- 
tenant, October 11, 1862, with rank from August 3, 1862, vice Henry D. 
Hall, resigned. 

BouLLES, William E.— Private. Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; promoted ser- 
geant, no date; killed in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. 



New York Volunteers 181 

BouTWELL, Daniel — Age, 19 years. Place, date and term of enlistment 
not stated; mustered in as private. Company G, July 26, 1864; transferred 
to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

BowEN, Andrew J. — Age, 32 years. Enrolled, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as first lieutenant, Company K, 
September IS, 1861 ; discharged for disability, April 19, 1862. Commis- 
sioned first lieutenant, January 20, 1862, with rank from September 18, 

1861, original. 

Bowers, James — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 7, 
1861 ; deserted, June 4, 1862, at camp on the Chickahominy River, Virginia. 

Bowman, John — Age, place, date and enrollment as chaplain not stated; 
discharged for disability, April 27, 1862. Commissioned chaplain, March 24, 

1862, with rank from October 20, 1861, original. 

BoYCE, Philip G. — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany A, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. 

BoYDE, James A. — Age, 25 years. Enrolled, September 16, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as second lieutenant. Company I, 
October 21, 1861; as quartermaster, June 23, 1862; mustered out, October 
18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. Commissioned second lieutenant, January 
20, 1862, with rank from September 20, 1861, original; first lieutenant and 
quartermaster, June 23, 1862, with rank from June 14, 1862, vice Henry 
D. Tillinghast deceased. 

Boyle, Barney — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Boyle, Barney H. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company H, December 1, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Brackney, Jay — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany D, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, October 1, 1864; mustered 
out with company, June 21, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bradford, Oliver — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, May 23, 1864; transferred to 
Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bkagg, Lewis — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, November 13, 1862. 

Brann, Adam — Age, 28 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company B, September 4, 1862; wounded in 



182 History of the 49th Regiment 

action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; discharged for disability, 
February 26, 1865. 

Brannon, Stephen — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Sep- 
tember 12, 1861 ; deserted in September, 1861, at Buffalo, New York. 

Brant, Frederick — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Carroll, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company K, August 26, 1862 ; deserted, 
June 7, 1863, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

Brant, John — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as priviate. Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, January 29, 1863, at hospital, Alexandria, 
Virginia. 

Brazee, Andrew W. — Age, 35 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as first lieutenant, Company H, 
September 9, 1861; as captain, March 30, 1862; as major, August 4, 1864; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. Commissioned first 
lieutenant January 20, 1862, with rank from September 6, 1861, original; 
captain, April 5, 1862, with rank from March 30, 1862, vice Charles H. 
Moss, deceased ; major, August 12, 1864, with rank from August 4, 1864, 
vice William Ellis, died. 

Brendel, Joseph — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, September 24, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, September 
25, 1861; discharged for disability, October 24, 1862, at Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania. 

Brendel, Peter — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years ; mustered in as private, unassigned, September 4, 1862 ; no further 
record. 

Brigham, Risley H. — Age, 29 years. Enrolled, September 6, 1861, at 
Fredonia, to serve three years ; mustered in as commissary sergeant, Octo- 
ber 21, 1861; returned to ranks. Company I, February 28, 1862; promoted 
corporal, April 23, 1862 ; mustered in as second lieutenant, Company F, 
July 1, 1862; discharged, October 6, 1862. Commissioned second lieuten- 
ant, July 18, 1862, with rank from June 21, 1862, vice Charles H. Hickmott, 
promoted. 

Brooker, John — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, June 16, 1865, 
with detachment at Washington, D. C. 

Brooks, Isaac — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, June 12, 1864; no further record. 

Brooks, Martin — Mustered in as private, Company H, Thirty-third 
Infantry; transferred to Company E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to 
Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Brooks, Thomas — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 18, 1862, at Carroll, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company K, August 25, 1862; 
wounded in action. May 10, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; 
died of his wounds, May 28, 1864, in hospital at Washington, D. C. 



New York Volunteers 183 

Brown, Adam — Age, 39 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, unassigned, September 5, 1862 ; 
no further record. 

Brown, Adolph C. — Age, 16 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as musician. Company B, August 28, 1861 ; deserted, 
January 27, 1862, at Camp Grififin, Virginia. 

Brown, George H. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, no date; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; 
promoted sergeant, April 25, 1864; reduced to corporal, no date; transferred 
to Company C, September 17, 1864; promoted sergeant, June 6, 1865; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Brown, James — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, January, 1862; deserted, February 2, 1862, at Camp 
Griffin, Virginia. 

Brown, Philip — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
died of disease, September 22, 1862, in hospital at Annapolis Junction, 
Maryland. 

Brown, Thomas — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 17, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 20, 
1861; promoted corporal, August 17, 1862; discharged, May 21, 1864. 

Brown, Varnum — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company G, August 5, 1864; transferred 
to Company A, September 17, 1864; absent with leave at muster out of 
company. 

Brown, William — Enlisted at Otto, and mustered in as private. Company 
A, July 2, 1864; deserted, September 19, 1864, at Winchester, Virginia. 

Brownell, Charles P. — Age, 39 years. Enlisted, August 30, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 
31, 1861 ; promoted corporal and sergeant, no dates ; returned to ranks, 
July 28, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, January 1, 1864; transferred to 
United States Navy, no date. 

Brownell, Leverett B. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at 
Forestville, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company I, 
August 28, 1861 ; promoted sergeant, August 17, 1862 ; discharged. May 19, 
1863, at camp near White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Bruggeman, Frank — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company I, January 16, 1864; wounded 
in action, July 12, 1864, at Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. ; transferred 
to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington D. C, 

Bruner, John — Age, 41 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company B, December 24, 1863 ; wounded in 
action. May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; discharged for disability, 
December 5, 1864; veteran. 



184 History of the 49th Regiment 

Brunier, Horace — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 7, 1861 ; 
deserted from Company G, Thirty-third Infantry; returned to that regiment 
in September, 1861, by order of Colonel Daniel Davidson Bidwell. 

Bryant, William — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; deserted, November 21, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

BucKELEW, Francis — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at New York City, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company C, January 28, 1864; 
transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

BuDD, Hiram — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; captured in 
action. May 3, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia ; transferred to Company 
E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company C, September 17, 1864; 
paroled, no date; discharged June 16, 1865. 

BuGBEE, George C. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; mustered out, October 10, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Bugbee, James A. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, no date ; died of disease, October 25, 1862, at Fairfax 
Seminary Hospital, Virginia. 

Bull, William S. — Age, 20 years. Enrolled at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as second lieutenant, Company E, March 25, 1862; as 
first lieutenant and adjutant, October 4, 1862; discharged, April 8, 1863. 
Commissioned second lieutenant, March 24, 1862, with rank from March 24, 
1862, vice Alexander Cain, resigned; first lieutenant and adjutant, December 
27, 1862, with rank from October 4, 1862, vice George Holden Selkirk, 
promoted ; subsequent service, first lieutenant. Twelfth New York Battery. 

BuLLYMORE, WiLLiAM — Age, 19 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as first lieutenant and adjutant, 
September 15, 1861 ; died of disease in May, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Vir- 
ginia. Commissioned first lieutenant and adjutant, January 20, 1862, with 
rank from September 5, 1861, original. 

BuNDSCHU, John — Age, 40 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company B, September 30, 1861 : no 
further record. 

BuRCKHARDT, JuLius — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, August 26, 1862; wounded. 
May 10, 1864; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; captured, 
March 27, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia; paroled, March 31. 1865; mustered 
out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

BuRGiN, James — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company E, January 3, 1863 ; transferred to 
Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. ; veteran. 



New York Volunteers 185 

Burke, Dennis — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Randolph, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, February 10, 1864; no further 
record. 

Burke, Thomas — Age, 2)7 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 26, 1861 ; 
deserted, September 18, 1861, at New York City. 

Burnet, George W. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 
20, 1861; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Burnham, Henry — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; discharged for disability, December 30, 1861, at Camp Griffin, 
Virginia. 

Burtch, Walter — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, no date, at Washington, D. C. 

Burton, Emory E.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Septem- 
ber 14, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 9, 1862, at White Oak 
Church, Virginia; subsequent service in Company A, Eighth Artillery. 

Bush, Asa — Age, 37 years. Enlisted at Jamestown, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company K, August 25, 1862; discharged for 
disability, January 17, 1863, at camp, near White Oak Church Virginia. 

Bush, Chandler B. — Age, 40 years. Enlisted at Elba, to serve one year, 
and mustered in as private. Company B, August 9, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Bush, Eli C. — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred to 
Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; dishonorably discharged, January 
2. 1864. 

Bush, William — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 9, 
1861 ; promoted corporal December 20, 1861 ; died of diphtheria, March 20, 

1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Busher, Albert W. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps November 15, 1863. 

Butler, William — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, May 25, 1864; no further 
record. 

Butterson, Frank — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted, September 20, 1862, at Sharpsburg, Maryland. 

Cady, Edwin A. — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, May 4, 

1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; discharged for disability, November 14, 
1863, at Hammond Hospital, Point Lookout, Maryland. 



186 History of the 49th Regiment 

Cady, James — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal May 4, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; 
wounded and captured in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Virginia; no further record. 

Cain, Alexander — Age, 32 years. Enrolled, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as first sergeant. Company E, August 28, 
1861 ; promoted second lieutenant January 25, 1862 ; discharged for disability, 
February 11, 1862. Commissioned second lieutenant, January 23, 1862, with 
rank from December 18, 1861, vice William Ellis, promoted. 

Calderwood, Hugh A. — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; killed in action, May 

6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Caldwell, Arthur L. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 

7, 1861 ; promoted corporal, March 26, 1862 ; deserted, November 2, 1862, at 
Petersville, Maryland. 

Callahan, Peter — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
transferred to the Navy, no date. 

Calvin, James B. — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 16, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, February 28, 1863, at Fortress Monroe, 
Virginia. 

Campbell, James — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 16, 
1861 ; died of typhoid fever, May 20, 1862, at Columbia Hospital, Washington, 
D. C. 

Campbell, John W. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
died, November 14, 1862, in hospital, Hagerstown, Maryland. 

Canfield, Albert G. — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, December 27, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, December 
28, 1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, November 15, 1863. 

Canning, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Portchester, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 4, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action, May 5, 1864, 
at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Caple, Robert — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, September 12, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company D, September 13, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, November 23, 1862. 

Carlev, James — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, September 16, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 18, 
1861; promoted corporal, same date; sergeant, February 1, 1862; deserted 
in July, 1862, from Carver Hospital, Washington, D. C. 



New York Volunteers 187 

Carney, James — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 5, 1861 ; 
deserted, September 11, 1861, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Carpenter, Elial Foote — Age, 34 years. Enrolled, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant. Company 
K, September 18, 1861; promoted first lieutenant, April 19, 1862; discharged, 
September 19, 1862; subsequent service as lieutenant colonel, One Hundred 
and Twelfth New York Infantry. Commissioned second lieutenant, Janu- 
ary 20, 1862, with rank from September 18, 1861, original; first lieutenant. 
May 13, 1862, with rank from April 19, 1862, vice Andrew J. Bowen, 
resigned. 

Carpenter, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
dishonorably discharged, June 9, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Carpenter, Thomas R. — Age, 44 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company E, September 10, 1862; 
wounded in action, December 13, 1862, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out, June 16, 1865, with 
detachment at Washington, D. C. 

Carr, Thomas — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; died of disease, January 24, 1863, at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. 

Carroll, James M. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, February 2 1865 ; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Carroll, John — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged with detachment, 
June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Carson, James H. — Age, 26 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, December 28, 1861 ; died. 
May 7, 1862, at Young's Mills, Virginia. 

Carter, John — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Brooklyn, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, December 27, 1864; no further 
record. 

Carver, Stephen T. — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, September 
7, 1861 ; discharged for disability, February 5, 1863, at Convalescent Camp, 
Virginia. 

Casey, John P. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 9, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, January 29, 1863, at Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
vania. 

Cathcart, Rodney S. — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as quartermaster-sergeant, October 21, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, October 14, 1862. 

Catlin, George R. — Private, Company , Thirty-third Infantry; cap- 
tured in action, May 3, 1863, at Chancellorsville, Virginia; transferred to 



188 History of the 49th Regiment 

Company E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; paroled, no date; transferred 
to Compan}' C, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Chamberlain, Spencer S.— Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 
28, 1861 ; discharged for disability, March 9, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Chapin, Enoch — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 30, 1861 ; 
died of consumption, November 2, 1862, at Union Hall Hospital, Baltimore, 
Maryland. 

Chapin, Gilbert C. — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 8, 
1861 ; died of convulsions, October 8, 1862, at Bakersville, Maryland. 

Chipperfield, John C. — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Buffalo to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company H, December 18, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Christler, George — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Warsaw, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company G, July 20, 1864; transferred to 
Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. 

Chubbuck, Job W. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 30, 1861, at Stock- 
ton, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; died, October 13, 1862, in hospital at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Church, Henry W. — Age, 23 years. Enrolled at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as sergeant-major September 16, 1861; promoted 
second lieutenant. Company C, March 20, 1862; dismissed, October 4, 1862, 
for absent without leave. Commissioned second lieutenant, March 12, 1862, 
with rank from January 24, 1862, vice William Theodore Wiggins, promoted. 

Churchwell, Joseph C. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861; wounded in action. May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864; at Buffalo, New York. 

Churchwell, Sylvester B. — Age, 38 years. Enrolled, September 2, 1861, 
at Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as first sergeant. Company 

C, September 4, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded 
in action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company 
E, September 17, 1864; mustered in as second lieutenant, Company B, Janu- 
ary 14, 1865 ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 

D. C. Commissioned second lieutenant, January 26, 1865, with rank from 
January 14, 1865, vice Jacob Vosburg, not reported. 

Claghorn, Austin — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
10, 1861 ; discharged for disability, November 26, 1862, at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

Clapp, Charles E. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 5, 
1862; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 



New York Volunteers 189 

Clark, Andrew — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, June 6, 1864; no further 
record. 

Clark, Arby S. — Age, 21 years. EnHsted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, January 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, March 25, 1864; 
promoted sergeant, November 23, 1864; munstered out with company, June 

27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Clark, Harvey — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 2, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, November 20, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Clark, John W. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 30, 1862, at Chester Hospital, Chester, 
Pennsylvania. 

Clark, Michael — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, May 10, 
1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 17, 
1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Clearwater, Johnson — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 12, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 
13, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C 

Clemens, Charles L. B. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at 
Forestville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 

28, 1861 ; deserted in August, 1862, at hospital. 

Cline, Benjamin — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Brooklyn, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, December 27, 1864; no further 
record. 

Cloos, Nicolas — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 17 , 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
sick in hospital, April 30, 1863 ; discharged, no date. 

Clunev, Thomas — Age, 24 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant. Company A, August 
24, 1861; as first lieutenant, November 2, 1861; as captain, April 14, 1862; 
dismissed. May 2, 1864; disability removed, March 3, 1865; mustered out, 
June 27, 1865. Commissioned second lieutenant, September 30, 1861, with 
rank from September 6, 1861, original; first lieutenant, January 3, 1862, with 
rank from November 6, 1861, vice Philip S. Cottle, promoted; captain, April 
19, 1862, with rank from April 14, 1862, vice Philip S. Cottle, resigned; 
captain, March 6, 1865, with rank from May 2, 1864, vice Thomas Cluney, 
dismissed; lieutenant colonel. May 17, 1865, with rank from April 3, 1865, 
vice George Holden Selkirk, promoted, not mustered. 

Coaxes, Richard — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, January 6, 1863, at Annapolis, Maryland. 



190 History of the 49th Regiment 

Cole, Albert — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, November 18, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, November 19, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 13, 1863; transferred to Company 
D, September 17, 1864; discharged, November 19, 1864. 

Coleman, Alphonso T. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at 
Somerset, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Sep- 
tember 13, 1861 ; discharged for disability, April 18, 1863, at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania; subsequent service as farrier. Second Mounted Rifles. 

Collingborn, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 30, 
1861 ; deserted, September 8, 1861, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Collingwood, Ralph — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 
1861; promoted corporal, same date; sergeant, January 1, 1863; deserted in 
February, 1864, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Collins, William — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, November 
25, 1861 ; discharged, no date. 

CoLLis, Albert — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, January 2, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

CoLLis, Ashley — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, September 
3, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; promoted corporal, 
February 6, 1864; wounded in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, 
Virginia; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Colt, Samuel B. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Lockport, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company H, September 30, 1861 ; deserted, 
October 14, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

CoLviN, Luther — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, September 
3, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Conger, Jonas F. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, September 
12, 1861 ; promoted corporal, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 
1863; captured in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Virginia ; died of scorbutus, September 16, 1864, while a prisoner of war ; 
buried at Andersonville, Georgia. Grave No. 8919. 

CoNKLiN, Henry M. — Age, years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 

years, and mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; no further 
record. 

Conley, Hiram L.— Age, 30 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 28, 1862. 

Conley, William W. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at 
Westfield, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 



New York Volunteers 191 

30, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; captured in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany A, September 17, 1864; paroled, December 13, 1864; mustered out, 
July 17, 1865, at Albany New York. 

Connors, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 11, 1864; no further record. 

CoNRADT, Simon — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, June 3, 1862. 

CoNROE, James M. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, January 21, 1863, at Washington, D. C. 

Cook, James — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, November 25, 1861 ; 
discharged, no date. 

Cook, Walter S. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Panama, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
died, October 30, 1862, at Panama, New York. 

Cook, William — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company F, September 22, 1862 ; killed in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. 

Cooper, Arthur — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, September 5, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, January 1, 1864; promoted corporal, .-^pril 25, 
1864; killed in action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

CooNEY, Patrick — Corporal, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Counradt, James E. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861; promoted corporal, April 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 
16, 1863; killed, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Corbit, Louis — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three jears ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
deserted, September 16, 1861, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Corby, Bernard — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred 
to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action. May 8, 
1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; transferred to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out, June 13, 1865, at White Hall Hospital, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

CoRR, James — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 30, 1861, at Lockport, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H. August 31, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, November 10, 1862, at New Baltimore, Virginia. 

Cottle, Philip S. — Age, 45 years. Enrolled, July 29, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company A, August 24, 

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192 History of the 49th Regiment 

1861 ; as captain, November 7, 1861 ; discharged for disability, April 1, 1862. 
Commissioned first lieutenant, September 30, 1861, with rank from Sep- 
tember 6, 1861, original; captain, January 3, 1862, with rank from November 

6, 1861, vice Henry N. March, resigned. 

CouNRADT, Joseph — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861; promoted corporal, November 26, 1862; sergeant, April 1, 1863; first 
sergeant, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in 
action. May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company C, to date, 
August 11, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. Commissioned first lieutenant, September 9, 1864, with rank from 
July 27, 1864, vice Henry H. Ingalsbee, promoted. 

Courtney, James H. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 
1861 ; transferred to Company E, November 1, 1861 ; deserted, June 19, 1863, 
at Fairfax Court House, Virginia. 

CousLAND, Joseph — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 5, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 

7, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; wounded in action. 
May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; absent, sick in hospital, at muster out of company. 

CovEL, Junior, Cyrus — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at 
Clymer, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 
30, 1861; died October 21, 1862, at Annapolis, Maryland. 

Cowan, William H. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 16, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, September 
18, 1861; promoted regimental commissary sergeant, February 28, 1862; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; mustered in as first lieutenant 
and adjutant, July 9, 1864; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New 
York. Commissioned first lieutenant, June 23, 1864, with rank from June 
10, 1864, vice Hermann Haase, killed; not commissioned as adjutant. 

CowDEN, George — Age, 36 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1862, at Poland, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 9, 
1862; discharged for disability, September 6, 1863, at camp, near Warrenton, 
Virginia. 

CowDEN, MiLTON J. — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 
1861; promoted corporal, no date; sergeant, July 17, 1863; re-enlisted as a 
veteran, December 16, 1863; captured, August 22, 1864, near Charlestown, 
Virginia ; died, no date, a prisoner. 

CowDEN, Robert J.— Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; promoted corporal, March 1, 1863; captured, July 12, 1864, at Fort 
Stevens, D. C. ; paroled, February 22, 1865, at Richmond, Virginia ; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

CowEN, George A.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 



New York Volunteers 193 

CowLES, Daniel F. — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, February 25, 1864, at Troy, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, unassigned, March 2, 1864 ; no 
further record. 

Craft, Charles — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Cheektowaga, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 5, 1864; mustered out 
with Company E, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Craine, Desmond — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; captured in action, May 
12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company 
A, September 17, 1864; paroled, April 18, 1865; mustered out, June 27, 1865, 
while on furlough. 

Crandall, Alonzo J. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Cheektowaga, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company E, January 11, 1865; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Crawford, William — Age, 28 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, August 29, 1861 ; deserted, 
September 27, 1861, at Washington, D. C. 

Creed, Cornelius — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, February 28, 1865 ; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Cregger, James — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company B, March 31, 1865; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Crissey, Sardis L. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Stock- 
ton, to serve thre years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, March 1, 1863, at camp near White Oak 
Church, Virginia. 

Crissey, Wilson H. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, November 9, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, 
November 21, 1861 ; discharged, September 22, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Critchel, William — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Cronyn, Charles D. H. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company D, August 
22, 1861 ; promoted sergeant, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 
25, 1863; deserted, February 5, 1864, on expiration of furlough, at Buffalo, 
New York. 

Cross, George W. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Dun- 
kirk, to serve three years ; mustered in as musician. Company I, Septem- 
ber 10, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever. May 10, 1862, at Yorktown, Virginia. 

Crouch, Leon — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
deserted, August 31, 1863. 



194 History of the 49th Regiment 

Culver, George W.— Age, 24 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, Sep- 
tember 13, 1861 ; died of smallpox, March 19, 1863, at Lovel Hospital, Ports- 
mouth Grove, Rhode Island. 

Cunningham, Joseph — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, 
September 4, 1861; discharged, December 8, 1862, at Belle Plain, Virginia. 

CuRRAN, Thomas — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1864, at New- 
fane, to serve three years, and mustered in as private, Company E, Sep- 
tember 29, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washing- 
ton. D. C. 

Cutler, John R.— Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; captured in action. May 3, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Vir- 
ginia; paroled, no date; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Daniel, Daniel — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, September 17, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, September 
18, 1862; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out 
with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Darby, John A.— Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company A, August 24, 
1861; promoted sergeant, January 16, 1862; discharged for disabiUty, 
November 3, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Darragan, Richard — Age, 18 years. EnHsted, August 1, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as drum major, October 21, 1861; 
died in October, 1862, at Buffalo, New York. 

Dart, Jonathan — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Daugherty, Patrick — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, August 26, 1861; died of 
disease, December 1, 1862, at Newark, New Jersey. 

Dauton, John — Age, 26 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, December 12, 1861 ; re-en- 
listed as a veteran, December 26, 1863; transferred to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washmg- 
ton, D. C. 

Davis, Augustus — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, December 15, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three vears : mustered in as private. Company A, December 
20, 1862; discharged for disability, August 10, 1863, at Washington, D. C. 
Davis, Henry — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Newfane, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 1, 1864; no further 
record. 

Davis, Theophilus T.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, January 13, 1864, at 
Java to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company E, January 
14, 1864; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; absent, sick m 
hospital at muster out of company. 



New York Volunteers 195 

Dawson, Hamer — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; died of his wounds, June 16, 1864. 

Day, Charles — Age, 32 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve balance of 
term, and mustered in as private. Company C, August 30, 1862; transferred 
to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 
16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Dayton, Gilbert — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as pri- 
vate. Company C, not stated ; no record subsequent to July 3, 1862. 

Dayton, Henry — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; killed in 
action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. 

Dayton, Willett — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, *:o serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861 ; discharged, no date, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

De Fort, Stephen Morris — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1861, 
at Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, Sep- 
tember 2, 1861 ; discharged for disability, August 29, 1863, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Denmark, Amenzo — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; killed in action. May 
6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Denton, William — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C. Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

De Plaa, Bastin — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out, June 27, 1865, at Rochester, New York. 

Dette, Theodore J. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company F, September 2, 1862 ; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, 
June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Devering, Peter — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted September , 1862, near Bakersville, Maryland. 

Devine, Charles — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Devine, James F. — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1862, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, September 

10, 1862; wounded in action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; to Company F, Twenty-first 
Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, no date, from which discharged, July 

11. 1865. 



196 History of the 49th Regiment 

Devit, Cornelius — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, September 5, 1861 ; dis- 
charged for disability, February 14, 1863, at Convalescent Camp, Virginia. 

Devlin, Daniel — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 28, 1861 ; 
transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, October 5, 1863. 

Dewey, Orville S. — Enrolled as second lieutenant. Company A, April 14, 
1862; discharged, November 26, 1862; prior service as first sergeant in 
Twenty-first New York Infantry. Commissioned second lieutenant. May 
17, 1862, with rank from April 14, 1862, vice Franklin J. Foster, promoted. 

Dibble, Alvin H. — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
May 3, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; discharged, November 13, 1863. 

Dickinson, Raselas — Age, 52 years. Enrolled, August 6, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years ; mustered in as captain. Company I, August 
28, 1861 ; discharged, October 12, 1861 ; died of paralytic stroke, October 
12, 1861, at Union Hospital, Georgetown, D. C. Commissioned captain, 
January 20, 1862, with rank from September 7, 1861, original. 

DiETZ, George — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted, September 2, 1862, near Alexandria, Virginia. 

Dietzel, Benjamin — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company F, August 26, 
1861 ; returned to ranks, February 25, 1862 ; discharged for disability, 
November 6, 1862, at Baltimore, Maryland. 

Dill, John P. — Age, 43 years. Enlisted at Newstead, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, February 17, 1865 ; mus- 
tered out, October 25, 1865, at Buffalo, New York, to date, June 27, 1865. 

DiSBROw, Harrison — Age, 21 years. Enrolled, August 3, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as first sergeant, Company F, August 
22, 1861 ; wounded in action, June 27, 1862, in front of Richmond, Virginia; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; transferred to Company C, 
September 17, 1864; mustered in as second lieutenant, November 8, 1864; 
transferred to Company D, December 1, 1864; mustered in as first lieu- 
tenant. May 23. 1865; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. Commissioned second lieutenant, September 30, 1864, with 
rank from September 5, 1864, vice John P. McVeane, killed; first lieutenant, 
May 11, 1865, with rank from March 12, 1865, vice William J. Kaiser, pro- 
moted. 

DiTTMiKR, Christopher G. J. — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, September 1, 
1862, at Buffalo, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company F, 
September 4, 1862; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mus- 
tered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Donnelly, Thomas — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861 ; deserted from hospital, no date. 



New York Volunteers 197 

DoNOGHEY, James — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 
1861 ; deserted, August 24, 1862, from Alexandria, Virginia. 

DooLiTTLE, Ezra — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861; discharged for disability, June 21, 1862. 

DooLiTTLE, William — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at 
Fredonia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a vetrean, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in 
action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; died of his wounds, 
May 16. 1864. 

Dorr, Junior, Peter — Age. 19 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three jears ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 28, 
1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Dorr, Senior, Peter — Age, 49 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, January 29, 1862 ; discharged 
for disability, March 1, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Doty, Howard B — Private, Company F. Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company D. this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; killed in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. 

Doubleday, Francis M. — Age. 20 years. Enlisted, September 27, 1861, 
at Somerset, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, 
September 30, 1861 ; discharged for disability, no date, at Annapolis, 
Maryland. 

DouD. William — .\ge. 25 years. Enlisted, March 12, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company I, March 31, 1862; 
deserted, October 3, 1862. from near Centerville. Virginia. 

Dougherty, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted. August 25, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C. Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 : captured in action, 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia : died. August 3, 1864, 
at Andersonville, Georgia. 

Downes, William H. — Age, 32 years. Enlisted. August 26, 1861, at 

Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, 

September 18, 1861 ; died of chronic diarrhoea, September 12, 1862, at 
hospital, Annapolis, Maryland. 

Doyle, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1861, at Portchester, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 20, 
1861 ; discharged, March 13, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Doyle, Michael — Age, 22 years. Enlisted. August 13. 1861. at Buffalo, 
to serve three years : mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Drake, Jeremiah Clinton — Age, 37 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, 
at Westfield, to serve three years ; mustered in as captain. Company G, 
August 30, 1861 ; mustered out, .August 14. 1862, by promotion to colonel, 
One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry. Commissioned captain, January 20, 
1862, with rank from September 5, 1861, original. 



198 History of the 49th Regiment 

Drew, George W. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
died of typhoid fever, August 22, 1862, at Hampton, Virginia. 

Driscoll, Michael — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Duck, Simon — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Jamestown, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company K, February 1, 1863; deserted, 
June 20, 1863, from near Bristoe Station, Virginia. 

Duffy, James — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned. May 19, 1864; no further record. 

Duncan, Julius M. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, September 12, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Company C, 
September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, November 1, 1864; sergeant, June 
17, 1865 ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

DuNLEY, Thomas — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
4, 1861 ; deserted, no date, from hospital at Yorktown, Virginia. 

Durshordwe, Frederick — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, September 
2, 1861 ; discharged for disability, June, 1862. 

Durst, Augustus I. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, Septem- 
ber 9, 1861 ; killed in action, May 4, 1863, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

Duryee, Eugene — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, May 12, 
1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; transferred to Company A, 
September 17, 1864; discharged with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

DuTCHBONE, James — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as 
private. Company E, not stated ; absent at muster out of company, an inmate 
in the Government Insane Asylum, Washington, D. C. 

DuTTON, Henry A. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
died. May 6, 1862, at Camp Winfield Scott, Virginia. 

DuTTON, Ira K. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
wounded in action, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; discharged 
for wounds, no date. 

DuTTON, Jonathan R. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, .\ugust 5, 1861, at 
Clymer, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 
30, 1861 ; killed in action, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland. 

Dyer, David — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Eaton, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company E, February 16, 1865 ; mustered out, 
August 3, 1865, at Slough Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia. 



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Eastman, Marvin J. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at 
Forestville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, Sep- 
tember 6, 1861 ; discharged, no date ; subsequent service as corporal. Company 
K, Second Mounted Rifles. 

Eaton, Joel H. — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 24, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Eaton, Ortus C. — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, March 
21, 1864. 

Ebert, Michael — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred 
to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; to Company B, September 17, 
1864'; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

EcKERT, Henry — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 4, 
1862; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, 
October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; discharged, June 16i 1865. 

Edwards, William — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
mustered out with company, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Einsfield, John P. — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, August 29, 1862; 
as second lieutenant. Company A, December 26, 1862; mustered out, 
October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. Commissioned second 
lieutenant, December 26, 1862, with rank from December 26, 1862, vice Orville 
S. Dewey, resigned. 

Elder, John — -Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Elba, to serve years, and 

mustered in as private, unassigned, September 10, 1864; no further record. 

Elkins, William A.— Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Stock- 
ton, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; died, October 3, 1862, at Point Lookout, Maryland. 

Ellis, William — Age, 21 years. Enrolled, July 30, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years, mustered in as second lieutenant. Company E, August 
28, 1861; promoted captain. Company C, January 25, 1862; mustered in as 
major, December 11, 1862; wounded, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia ; died of his wounds, August 3, 1864, in camp at Monocacy 
Creek, Maryland. Commissioned second lieutenant, September 30, 1861, with 
rank from September 5, 1861, original; captain, December 30, 1861, with rank 
from December 18, 1861, vice Charles H. Palmer, resigned; major, December 
24, 1862. with rank from December 10, 1862, vice George Washington 
Johnson, promoted. 

Ellis, William. — Age. 11 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, December 27, 1862 ; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Ellord, Dennis — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 29. 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 31, 1861 ; 
deserted, September 10, 1861, from Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 



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Elsworth, George B.— Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at 
Fredonia, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Company A, 
August 30, 1861 ; discharged for disability. May 31, 1862, at Mount Pleasant, 
Washington, D. C. 

Ely, Clark — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 18, 1861 ; 
wounded in action, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland; discharged 
for his wounds, November 13, 1862, at hospital. New York City. 

Ely, Junior, Samuel — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Company K, 
September 18, 1861 ; returned to ranks, January 10, 1862 ; promoted corporal, 
January 14, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; promoted 
sergeant, September 17, 1864; transferred to Company D, September 17, 
1864; mustered out with company. June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

EuscHER, August — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, January 2. 1864; transferred 
to Company C, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, September 19, 1864, 
at Opequon, Virginia; absent at muster out of company. 

Evans, David M.— Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, 
September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Evans, Junior, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at 
Somerset, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, Sep- 
tember 16, 1861 ; discharged for disability. October 2, 1862, at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

Evans, Samuel — Age, date of enlistment, place, term and muster in as 
private. Company E, not stated; deserted, October 7, 1864. 

Everett Calvin D.— Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washmg- 
ton, D. C. 

Everhart, John — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861; promoted corporal April 1. 1863; sergeant, August 15, 1863; re-enlisted 
as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Company D. September 17, 
1864; promoted first sergeant, September 25. 1864; mustered out with com- 
pany, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Every, Charles C— Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as sergeant. Company I, October 3, 1861 ; promoted 
first sergeant, no date; discharged, November 26, 1862, at Acquia Creek, 
Virginia; promoted to second lieutenant Forty-seventh Volunteers. 

Falconer, Rorert E.— Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal. Company K, 
September 18, 1861; promoted sergeant, May 1, 1862; captured in action, 
October 16, 1863, near Fairfax Court House, Virginia; paroled. May 12, 
1864; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 



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Falk, Joseph — Age, 42 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company B, September 6, 1861 : discharged 
for disability, October 7. 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Faling, Horace — Age, 21 years. EnHsted, September 3, 1861, at IMedina, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company H, September 13, 
1861 ; died of phthisic pulmonia, October 8, 1862, at Annapolis, Maryland. 

Faller, Nicholas — Age, 37 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability October 21, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Farnham, Benjamin E. — Age, 45 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 
17, 1861 ; discharged for disability, October 21, 1861, at Camp Griffin, 
Virginia. 

Farr, Edson — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; wounded in action. May 
6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Company D, September 
17, 1864; promoted corporal, November 1, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865 at Washington D. C. 

Farrar, Amos — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred 
to Compan}- G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, September 
17, 1864; discharged for disability May 16, 1865, at Satterlee Hospital, West 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Fees, Frederick — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, March 26, 1862; sergeant, September 11, 1862; wounded 
and captured in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Vir- 
ginia ; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; paroled, November 
25, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Fegan, James — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged, January, 1864, at Rochester, New York. 

Ferguson, Abel C. — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Qymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 31, 1863; transferred to Company A, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Ferren, Edmund — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; promoted corporal, 
April 1, 1864; killed in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Virginia. 

Ferris, Charles — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 
20, 1861 ; died, April 1, 1862, in hospital at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Ferris, Edgar — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; wounded in action, May 3. 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia ; 



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discharged for wounds, September 12, 1863, at McQellan Hospital, Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania. 

Ferry, Albert — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1862, at Clymer, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, September 10, 1862; 
captured in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; died of bronchitis, July 22, 
1864; buried at Andersonville, Georgia. 

Ferry, Asahel J. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, March 26, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Ferry, John L. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, no date. 

Finch, Josephus H. — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 
20, 1861; promoted corporal December 1, 1861; sergeant, January 9, 1863; 
returned to ranks, February 28, 1864; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, 
at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at 
Buffalo, New York. 

Fischer, Gottlo C. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted, on expiration of sick leave, November, 1862, at Buffalo, New York. 

Fischer, John J. — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 2, 
1862; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, 
October 1, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, 
Virginia ; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Fish, George A. — Age. 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company C, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Fisher, Aaron C. — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, no date ; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company F, 
October 17, 1862; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia; discharged for disability from wounds, July 21, 1864. 
Commissioned first lieutenant, November 11, 1862. with rank from October 

16, 1862, vice Charles H. Hickmott, promoted. 

Fischer, French W. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 9. 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted first sergeant March 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 
25, 1863; mustered in as second lieutenant, March 18, 1864; as first lieuten- 
ant, Company A, September 5, 1864; transferred to Company B, September 

17, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia, and 
April 2, 1865, near Petersburg, Virginia; mustered out, June 27, 1865. Com- 
missioned second lieutenant, December 19, 1863, with rank from September 7, 
1863, vice John C. White, promoted; first lieutenant, September 30, 1864. with 
rank from September 5, 1864. vice Reuben M. Preston, killed in action; cap- 



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tain, May 17, 1865, with rank from April 1, 1865, vice Andrew W. Brazee, 
promoted; not mustered as captain. 

Fisher, Henry — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, April 10, 1865 ; no further record. 

Fitzgerald, Thomas — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Niagara, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, June 19, 1864; mustered out 
with company, June 21 , 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

FiTZPATRicK, Michael — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, November 20, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F. November 
21, 1861; appointed wagoner, no date; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 
1863; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Fletcher, Thomas — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company I, November 13, 1861 ; promoted 
sergeant, November 26, 1862 ; returned to ranks, October 1, 1863 ; transferred 
to Company D, September 17, 1864; discharged from hospital at expiration 
of term of service. 

Flummer, AIartin — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve one 
year, and mustered in as private, Company E, August 18, 1864; captured, 
March 27, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia; absent, exchanged prisoner, at 
muster out of company. 

Flynn, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 10, 
1861; promoted corporal, September 1, 1862; discharged for disability, 
April 15, 1863, at camp near White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Folen, William H. H. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, 
September 20, 1861 ; died, no date, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Foley, Adam — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran December 16, 1863; promoted sergeant, December 
16, 1863; first sergeant, March 1, 1863; wounded in action, May 6, 1864, at 
the Wilderness, Virginia; died of his wounds, May 8, 1864. 

Foley, John — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Warsaw, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company G, July 16, 1864 ; transferred to 
Company D, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at 
Cedar Creek, Virginia ; deserted from hospital, November 22, 1864. 

Foley, William — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred 
to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, October 19, 
1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia ; absent, wounded, at muster out of company. 

FoLLis, John — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Lockport, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 4, 1864; no further 
record. 

Fond, William — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Alexander, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, September 28, 1864; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 



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Forbes, Sherman — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
12, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

FoRSTER, Frederick — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company B, August 28, 1861 ; 
returned to ranks, no date; wounded in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsyl- 
vania Court House, Virginia; no further record. 

Forsyth, George — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged for disability, February 11, 1865. 

Foster, Charles — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, August 30, 1861 ; discharged 
for disability, October 21, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Foster, Franklin J.- Age, 19 years. Enlisted, July 29, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as first sergeant. Company A, August 24, 
1861; as second lieutenant, November 7, 1861; promoted first lieutenant, 
April 14, 1862; discharged, November 20, 1862. Commissioned second 
lieutenant, Janukry 3, 1862, with rank from November 6, 1861, vice Thoma.s 
Quney, promoted; first lieutenant, April 19, 1862, with rank from April 14, 
1862, vice Thomas Cluney, promoted. 

Foster, John -Age, 32 years. Enlisted, July 29, 1861, at Fredonia, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
died of disease, October 25, 1862, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Fox Elias — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Mina, to serve 
three vears • mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; discharged 
for disability, February 28, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virgmia. 

Fox, ELMOR-Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at Somerset, 
to serCe three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 16, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, November 1, 1862; captured in action. May 4. 1863; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; transferred to Company E, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washmg- 
ton, D. C. 

Fox, John G.- Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve 'three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, no date; first sergeant in March, 1863 : re-enhsted as a 
veteran, December 25, 1863; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spot^yl- 
vania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; 
returned to ranks, November 7, 1864; discharged, August 16. 1865. 

Fraemiller, Philip -Age, 28 years. Enlisted at Le Roy. to serve three 
vears. and mustered in as private. Company E, August 20. 1864 ; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, September 19. 
1864, at Opequon, Virginia; deserted, March 24, 1865. 

Fraenmieller, John -Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 3. 1861. at 
Buffalo, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company E, Septem- 
ber 5, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran. December 16, 1863; wounded m action, 
Mav 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17. 1864; to Second Battalion. Veteran Reserve Corps, April 5, 1865; 
mustered out, July 21, 1865, at Rochester, New York 



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Framiller, Joseph — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, March 7, 1864; transferred 
to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Franke, Frederick — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years, mustered in as private, Company B, September 3, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; mustered out with 
company June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Fredenburgh, Charles — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, 
September 4, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; killed in 
action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Fredenburgh, Henry C. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to 
Company E, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, February 4, 1865; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Freeman, Charles — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; captured in action. May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia ; paroled, 
no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred to Company 
E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Freeman, Morley U. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Clymer. 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
died, April 3, 1862, at Camp Winfield Scott, Virginia. 

Frei, John — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company F, February 24, 1862; promoted 
corporal, December 1, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran, February 26, 1864; 
transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington. D. C. 

French, Simon W. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, November 28, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, 
December 7, 1861 ; wounded in action. May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, 
Virginia ; died of his wounds. May 31, 1863, at Judiciary Square Hospital, 
Washington, D. C. 

Frier, Frederick — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 4, 
1862; wounded in action, July 12, 1864, at Fort Stevens, D. C. ; transferred 
to Company B, September 17, 1864; discharged for disability, no date. 

Fries, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1862, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 30, 1862 ; 
transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detach- 
ment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Fuller, John — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Jamestown, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company K, November 18, 1861 ; died of 
typhoid fever, April 22, 1862, at Young's Mills, Virginia. 



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Fuller, Ludophicus W. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as wagoner. Company H, 
August 31, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred to 
Company E, September 17, 1864; absent, on furlough, at muster out of 
company. 

Fuller, Perry W. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Allegany, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, July 1, 1864; transferred to 
Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Funk, Charles — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 21, 1861, at Buflfalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 22, 
1861 ; promoted corporal, April 18, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, March 25, 
1864; wounded, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

FuNKE, Christopher — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 21, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, Septem- 
ber 26, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in 
action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; again wounded, September 
21, 1864; absent, wounded, at muster out of company. 

Fuss, Mathias — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 1861 ; 
died of diarrhoea, September 26, 1862, at Newport News, Virginia. 

Gafney, Charles — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, February 
1, 1864. 

Gahrig, Philip — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Gardner, John C. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Lebanon, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, January 26, 1865 ; captured 
in action, April 2, 1865, near Petersburg, Virginia, and paroled, April 9, 1865, 
at Appomattox Court House, Virginia ; mustered out with company, June 21 , 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Gardner, Thomas — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Warsaw, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company G, July 19, 1864; transferred to 
Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out, July 13, 1865, at Mower 
Hospital, Philadelpliia, Pennsylvania. 

Gates, Oscar R. — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as musician. Company K, September 
18, 1861; promoted drum major, September 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, 
December 13, 1863; mustered out with regiment, June 27, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Gattie, Joseph — Age, 21 years. Enhsted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company E, January 2, 1863 ; killed in action, 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Gauchat, Emil — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, September 2, 1862; wounded 



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in action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; promoted corporal, 
August, 1864; discharged, June 24, 1865, at Mount Pleasant Hospital, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Geelan, Barnett — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 10, 1864, at the Wildnerness, Virginia ; transferred to Company A, 
September 17, 1864; to Company I, First Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, 
from which discharged for disability, July 25, 1865. 

Geisler, Joseph — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 28, 1861 ; 
wounded in action, July 12, 1864, at Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. ; absent, 
in hospital, at muster out of company. 

Geller, Joseph — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, November 25, 
1861 ; deserted, January 16, 1862, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Genther, Benedict — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 21, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

GouRLEY, James A. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; wounded, July 12, 1864, 
at Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. ; transferred to Company D, September 
17, 1864; mustered out, August 12, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

GiBBS, Walter — Corporal, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company A, this regiment. October 1, 1863; wounded. May 10, 1864; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; discharged with detachment, 
June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

GiFFORD, Henry J. — Captain, Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred to captain, 
Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; to Company A, September 17, 
1864; to Company E, April 15, 1865; mustered out, July 3, 1865, at Hall's 
Hill, Virginia. Commissioned captain, February 18, 1865, with rank from 
February 14, 1865, vice George Holden Selkirk, promoted. 

GiFFORD, N. C. Martin — Corporal, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, 
September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

GiGER, Lawrence — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, September 
13, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; appointed wagoner, 
no date; mustered out, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C 

GiGGLEY, Rudolph — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 
11, 1861 ; absent, sick, at Sharpsburg, Maryland, at muster out of company. 

Gilbert, Simeon — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H. September 
13, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever, January 12, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Gillett, William H. — Private, Company H, — Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; killed in action, 
July 12, 1864, at Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. 

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208 History of the 49th Regiment 

Oilman, George W.- Age, 36 years. Enrolled, July 30, 1861 at Buffalo, 
to serve three vears ; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company E, August ^», 
1861; discharged for disability, May 14, 1863. Commissioned first lieutenant, 
January 20, 1862, with rank from September 5, 1861, ongmal. 

Glass, Joseph -Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company E, September 7, 1861; deserted, 
January 16, 1862, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Glenn, William - Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned. May 25, 1864; no further 
record. 

Glossender, Thomas -Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company 
B, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

'goldschmidt, Julius -Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Buf- 
falo to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company t, August ^C, 
1861; promoted corporal, December 1, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran 
December 26, 1863; killed in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia. 

Goodwin, Phineas S.-Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 24, 1861 at 
Medina, to serve three years; mustered in as private Company H, Sep- 
tember 13, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, February 11, 1864; promoted 
corporal April 28, 1864; transferred to Company E, September 1/, l»M, 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

GORHAM, Edward L.- Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged, April 14, 1865. 

Gorham, Jerry G.-Age, 23 years. Enlisted September 9, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company I, September 
10, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; killed in action. May 
5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

GoRSLiNE, Richard M.- Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 16 1^1, at 
Panama, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, August 
30 1861 ; died March 12, 1862, in hospital at Georgetown, D. C. 

GOTT Charles -Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Companv D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded and captured in 
action. Ma; 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; tran^^e^ed 
to Company B, September 17, 1864; died of rheumatism, February 7, 1865. 
and buried at Andersonville, Georgia. Grave No. 12,604. 

Graham, Peter -Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Busti to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G. August 30, 1861, 
transferred to Company I, September 21, 1861; discharged for disability. 
February 14, 1863, at Convalescent Camp, Virginia. 

^ T A . ie ^..orc Fnlkted \ueust 6, 1861, at Buffalo. 

Grasshoff, John — Age, 18 years. H-niistea, .-AuguM u, ' .g,, 

to serve three vears; mustered in as private. Company E August 28, 1861 
missing in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; no 
further record. 



New York Volunteers 209 

Graves, Edwin A. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company I, August 28, 
1861; wounded in action, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland; died 
of his wounds, September 24, 1862, at Hoffman House Hospital, Maryland. 

Graydon, Peter — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, July 31, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as wagoner. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
captured, June 27, 1862 ; paroled and prisoner at Parole Camp, April 10, 
1863; no further record. 

Greely, Charles W. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at 
Stockton, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 
30, 1861; captured in action, May 4, 1863, near Fredericksburg, Virginia; 
paroled, November — , 1863; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, no 
date. 

Greene, Gilbert J. — Age, 28 years. Enrolled, August 10, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company C, 
September 4, 1861 ; discharged for disability, January 24, 1862. Commis- 
sioned first lieutenant, January 20, 1862 ; with rank from September 4, 
1861, original. 

Green, James — Age, 17 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1861, at Portchester, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as musician, Company C, September 20, 
1861; deserted, February 1, 1862, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Greene, Richard T. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 
1861; deserted, March 11, 1863, from Buffalo, New York. 

Greenman, James — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, February 28, 1865 ; mus- 
tered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Greenman, Richard — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Sher- 
man, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, June 13, 1862, at hospital, Washington. 
D. C. 

Greenwood, William — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry ; 
transferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; wounded in 
action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Company 
A, September 17, 1864; to Veteran Reserve Corps, December 16. 1864. 

Gregg, Robert W. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; promoted corporal, March 31, 1862; died of general debility, 
October 9, 1862, at hospital, Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Griffin, Thomas — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, April 5, 1865 ; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Griggs, Robert E. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted. September 2, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three \ears, and mustered in as fifer, Company F, September 
7, 1861 ; returned to ranks, no date ; missed in action, May 10, 1864, at the 
Wilderness, Virginia ; no further record. 



210 History of the 49th Regiment 

Grisley, John — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; promoted corporal, August 15, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, Decem- 
ber 16, 1863; killed in action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Griswold, James H.— Age, 18 years Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, Sep- 
tember 13, 1861 ; captured in action. May 4, 1863, near Fredericksburg, Vir- 
ginia; paroled, no date; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; 
transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with com- 
pany, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Groce, Freeman — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864: mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Grover, Adoniram — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Company B, September 
3, 1861 ; discharged, September 8, 1862. 

Grow, Nicholas — Age, 33 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, February 8, 1862; captured 
and paroled, no dates; re-enlisted as a veteran, February 13, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

GuLA, Andrew — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861; 
killed in action, September 18, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland. 

Guire, Michael— Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, June 7, 
1864, at Brandy Station, Virginia. 

Guire, Patrick — Private, Company H. Thirty-third Infantry; captured 
in action. May 3, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia ; transferred to Com- 
pany E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; transferred to Company C, Septem- 
ber 17, 1864; paroled, no date; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

GuiRY, Michael — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, September 9, 1861; dis- 
charged for disability, December 16, 1862, at Fort Wood, New York Harbor. 
Guth Philip — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Le Roy, to serve three years, 
and mu'stered in as private. Company C, August 20, 1864; mustered out 
with company. June 27. 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Haas John F — Age. 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mu'stered in as private. Company F. September 2, 1862; captured in 
action Mav 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred 
to Company C, September 17. 1864; died of scorbutus. November 10, 1864, 
at Andersonville, Georgia; grave No. 11,947. 

Haase. Hermann -Age, 26 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as sergeant. Company B, September 5, 1861; pro- 
moted first sergeant, April 10, 1862; mustered in as first lieutenant, June 



New York Volunteers 211 

11, 1862; detailed as adjutant, March 11, 1863; killed in action, May 12, 
1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. Commissioned first lieuten- 
ant, July 18, 1862, with rank from June 12, 1862, vice Frederick Von Gayl, 
deceased; not commissioned adjutant; not mustered. 

Haase, Luther R. — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Company B, 
September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, October 1, 1864; sergeant, Janu- 
ary 1, 1865 ; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Hack, Nathan — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged for dis- 
ability, March 19, 1864, at Brandy Station, Virginia. 

Haegran, George — Age, 32 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve 

years, and mustered in as private, Company D, March 14, 1862; deserted, 
July 1. 1863. 

Haentges, John G. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, Septem- 
ber 14, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New 
York. 

Hagart, Adam — Age, 38 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, September 2, 1862; no further 
record. 

Haight, Junior, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Somerset, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Sep- 
tember 13, 1861 ; discharged for disability. May 26, 1862, at Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

Haines, Erasmus W. — Age, 36 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as captain. Company F, October 21, 
1861 ; discharged, October 16, 1862. Commissioned captain, January 20, 1862, 
with rank from September 5, 1861, original. 

Hair, Lyman W. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company F, August 22, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; promoted first sergeant, June 7, 1865; ser- 
geant-major, June 17. 1865; mustered out with regimnt, June 27, 1865. at 
Washington, D. C. 

Haisbach, Frederick — Age, 39 years. Enlisted at Concord, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company E, September 14, 1864; 
absent, sick, April 30, 1865 ; died, no date. 

Hale, Walter H. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 27, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861; died, October 8, 1862, at Bellevue Hospital, New York City. 

Haley, William — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buflfalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, January 30, 1865 ; mustered 
out, June 30, 1865, at Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Hall, Clement F. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 



212 History of the 49th Regiment 

1861; died of chronic diarrhoea, October 19, 1862, at Fairfax Seminary 
Hospital, Virginia. 

Hall, Henry D.— Age, 27 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant. Company H, Octo- 
ber 21 1861- promoted first lieutenant, March 30, 1862; discharged, August 
3 1862 Commissioned second lieutenant, January 20, 1862, with rank from 
September 20, 1861, original; first lieutenant, April 5, 1862, with rank from 
May 30, 1862 vice Andrew W. Brazee, promoted. 

Hall, James A.- Age, 46 years. Enrolled, August 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as surgeon, September 10, 1861; mus- 
tered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York; commissioned surgeon, 
January 20, 1862, with rank from September 9, 1861, original. 

Hall, John -Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Portchester, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company C, September 4, 
1861- re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; captured in action. May 
12 l'864 at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; paroled, no date; trans- 
ferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

HALLOAN, PETER -Age, 32 years. Enlisted. August 22 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three vears ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861; 
re-enlisted as a veteran. December 16, 1863; discharged for disability, Sep- 
tember 18, 1864. 

Halsey, Francis M.-Age, 19 years Enlisted, August 12. 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years: mustered in as private, Company A, August 
24, 1^1; discharged for disability, June 6, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, 
Virginia. 

HALSEY, HARVEY -Age, 18 years. Enlisted. August 23 1861. at Fredoma. 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861; 
died of consumption, April 26, 1863, at Laona, New York. 

Hambleton, William T.-Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 9 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company F, August 
22 1861 • died in Tune, 1863, at Hamburg, New York. 

Hammond, William R.- Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August \^f^'J' 
Ellicott, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company K August 
25, 1862; captured and paroled. June 20, 1863, ^^.^BrentvUle, Virginia 
tr;nsferr;d to Company D, September 17, 1864; dishonorably discharged, 
October 12. 1864. 

HANBY, John -Private, Company E. Thirty-third Infantry, tran..ferred 
to Comp;ny E. this regiment, October 1. 1863; to Company C. September 
17 1864; to Ninety-sixth Company, Second Battahon, Veteran Reserve 
Corps no date, from which discharged, July 6. 1865. at Rochester, New 

York 

HANCHETT. LEWIS L.- Age, 18 years. Enlisted. September 14. 1^1, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years; mustered in as private Company G, Sep em- 
ber 18 1861; promoted corporal, no date; re-enhsted as a veteran. Decern- 
be 16 1863; captured in action. May 12. 1864. at Spottsylvania Court 
House Virginia; transferred to Company A. September 17. 1864; paroled, 



New York Volunteers 213 

March 25, 1865; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Handkin, Richard W.— Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at 
Fredonia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 
24, 1861; discharged for disability, July 31, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Handy, Henry — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, August 8, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 
1863; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Vir- 
ginia; promoted first sergeant, June 1, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. Commissioned second lieutenant. May 
11, 1865, with rank from March 12, 1865, vice Harrison Disbrow, promoted, 
not mustered. 

Hanev, Anthony — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at New York Citj% to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 13, 1864; mustered 
out. May 19, 1865, at hospital, York, Pennsylvania. 

Harden, John — Age, 41 years. Enlisted at Porter, to serve one year, 
and mustered in as private, Company E, October 3, 1864; mustered out 
with company, June 11 , 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Harding, Henry D. — Enlisted at Warsaw, and mustered in as private, 
Company G, July 20, 1864; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; 
wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; absent, 
sick in hospital, at muster out of company. 

Hardy, James — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 28, 1861 ; 
deserted in September, 1863, while absent, sick. 

Harnety, William H. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at 
Bufifalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, Sep- 
tember 5, 1861; missing in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; 
no further record. 

Harrington, Charles — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at 
Fredonia, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company A, August 
24, 1861 ; deserted, August 31, 1863. 

Harrington, Nelson — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; died of disease, October 26, 1862, in hospital at Fortress 
Monroe, Virginia. 

Harrington, Newton — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; discharged for disability at hospital, January 28, 1863, at 
New York City. 

Harris, Alonzo D.— Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1862, at James- 
town, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, September 
10, 1862; wounded in action. May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; discharged for disability, 
May 26, 1865. 



214 History of the 49th Regiment 

Harris, Gilbert D.— Age, 11 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1862, at James 
town «^o serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, September 
10, 1862; killed in action, }^Iay 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Virginia. 

Harse, William — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; left sick, at Bealton 
Station, Virginia, and captured, October 13, 1863; absent, a prisoner of 
war, at muster out of company. 

Hart, Francis H.— Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; promoted corporal, December 1, 1861 ; sergeant, in February, 
1862; re-enUsted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded. May 10, 1864; 
transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; promoted first sergeant, 
February 4, 1865; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. ■ . 'i 
Hart, Rollin — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company G, September 9, 
1861; died, October 9, 1862, in hospital, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Hart, Samuel— Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company D, this regiment. October 1, 1863; discharged, January 27, 
1864, at Brandy Station, Virginia. 

Hartler, John — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, September 
12, 1861; discharged for asthma, April 5, 1863, at White Oak Church, 
Virginia. 

Harvey, George — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as private, unassigned, September 
22, 1862; no further record. 

Hassett, Quincy a.— Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at 
Stockton, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 
30, 1861; detached to Ayres Battery, no date; deserted as of Company F, 
Sixth United States Artillery, June 29, 1863, near Newmarket, Maryland. 

Havens, John S.— Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded, no date; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 
Hayden, Charles H.— Age, 24 years. Enlisted, .August 15. 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal. Company D, August 
22, 1861; returned to ranks, no date; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at 
Buffalo, New York. 

Hayden, William — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at BuflPalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861; 
deserted, August 25, 1861, from Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Hayes, George E.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 18ol ; 
deserted, August 25, 1861, from Camp Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Hayes, John — Age, 21 years. Enhsted at Buffalo, to serve three vears. 
and mustered in as private. Company F, January 18, 1864; transferred to 




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New York Volunteers 215 

Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27 
1865, at Washmgton, D. C. ; veteran. 

Haynes, Sylvester S.- Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861 a* 
Stockton, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company G, August 
30, 1861 ; died, November 30, 1862, in hospital at Hagerstown, Maryland. 

Hays, Horace H.- Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August IS, 1861, at Buffalo 
to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Company D, August 22 
1861; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, September 1, 1863. 

Hayes, Otis B.- Age, 26 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Somerset 
to serve three years; mustered in as sergeant. Company H, September 
13, 1861; promoted first sergeant, August 3, 1862; captured in action May 
4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; paroled, no date; re-enlisted as a vet- 
eran, December 26, 1863; mustered in as second lieutenant. Company G 
September 9, 1864; transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864- mus- 
tered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. Commissioned 
second lieutenant, March 30, 1864, with rank from Februarv 24, 1864 vice 
William Tindai, dismissed. 

Hazeltine, Clark S.-Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861 at 

Jamestown, to serve three years; mustered in as sergeant. Company K 

September 18, 1861; returned to ranks, March 1, 1863; mustered out no 
date, at Rochester, New York. 

Hazen, Marcellus E.— Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry 
transferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded. May 
10, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, 

Heacock, Reuben E.— Age, 40 years. Enrolled, July 30, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as captain. Company E, August 28 
1861 ; killed in action. May 18, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia' 
Commissioned captain, January 20, 1862, with rank from September 5, 1861 
original. ' ' 

Hearsberger, Frederick — Age, 39 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, September 14, 1864; 
no further record. 

Hehr, Christian — Age, 22, years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 1861 ' 
discharged, September 6, 1862. 

Heinz, Peter — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 28, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863; killed in action. May 5. 1864^ 
at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Heintz, Valentine — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company F, August 22, 
1861; promoted corporal, September 22,, 1863; mustered out, October 18 
1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Hellriegel, Peter — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, January 3, 1863; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 15, 1865, at 
Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C. 



216 History of the 49th Regiment 

Hemenger, Oramel — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Stock- 
ton, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861; died, June 3, 1862, at Newport News, Virginia. 

Hemmingway, Albert — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; wounded m 
action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company 
D, September 17, 1864; discharged for disability, March 30, 1865. 

Henderson, George — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, November 15, 1862, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, Novem- 
ber 16, 1862; captured and paroled, no dates; transferred to Company B, 
Nineteenth Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, October 26, 1863; to Com- 
pany E, this regiment, March 31, 1864; to Company C, September 17, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Henderson, James -Age, 31 years. Enlisted at West Seneca, to serve 
one year, and mustered in as private. Company E, August 16, 1864; mus- 
tered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Hennes, Adam -Age, 19 years. EnHsted, August 15, 1861, at Bufifalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 1861; 
discharged for disability, February 25, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virgmia. 
Henry, John N. — Age, 39 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Forest- 
ville to serve three years; mustered in as hospital steward, August 28, 
186l'; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; mustered out with regi- 
ment, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Herlan, Jacob -Age. 38 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buffalo to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861; 
died of disease, March 20, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virgmia. 

Herman, William -Age, 43 years. Enlisted, at Genesee Falls, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company G, July 11, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out, June 10, 1865, at 
Emory Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Herman, George- Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 861; 
promoted corporal, no date; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16 1863; 
transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; killed in action, October 
19 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. 

Herman, Jacob -Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28 1^1; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, January 1, 1864; wounded in action May 2, 1^, 
at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia, and October 19, 1^4, at Cedar 
Creek. Virginia; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864, promoted 
corporal, October 1, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Hermon, Cornelius -Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 23, 1861 at 
Lockport, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, bep- 
tember 24, 1861; promoted sergeant, no date; died of chronic diarrhoea, 
November 8, 1862, at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, Virginia. 



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Herrick, George B. — Enlisted, private, Compan}- D, Thirty-third New 
York Infantry; transferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; 
to Company D, on consolidation, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. Commissioned first lieu- 
tenant and adjutant, July 31, 1865, with rank from May 1, 1865, vice Solo- 
mon W. Russell, Junior, promoted ; not mustered. 

Herrick, Mortimer — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; wounded in action 
and died, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Herrick, Nathan — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, September 5, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
13, 1861 ; died of disease, October 24, 1862, at Annapolis, Maryland. 

Herring, William — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 31, 1861 ; 
deserted, February 5, 1862, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Herrington, Oliver — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Sher- 
man, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; died, June 13, 1862, in hospital at Baltimore, Maryland. 

Hessel, Charles E. — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, September 23, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Sep- 
tember 24, 1861 ; promoted sergeant, no date ; wounded in action. May 4, 
1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; died of his wounds. May 14, 1863, at 
Potomac Creek Bridge, Virginia. 

Hetzel, William H. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 
10, 1862; promoted corporal, April 1, 1863; returned to ranks in July, 1863; 
wounded in action, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred 
to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Hickmott, Charles H. — Age, 24 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant. Company F, 
August 22, 1862; mustered in as captain, October 17, 1862; killed in action, 
May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. Commissioned second lieutenant, 
January 20, 1862, with rank from October 21, 1861, original ; first lieutenant, 
July 18, 1862, with rank from June 21, 1862 vice Charles Howell Bidwell, 
resigned; captain, November 17, 1862, with rank from October 16, 1862, 
vice Erasmus W. Haines resigned. 

HiGGiNS, George — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861 ; discharged, October 20, 1862, at Hagerstown, Maryland. 

Hildebrand, Charles F. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1862, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 
29, 1862 ; wounded in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; 
transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Hill, Charles — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 31, 1861 ; 

promoted corporal, August . 1862; deserted, August , 1862, from 

Harrison's Landing, Virginia. 



218 History of the 49th Regiment 

Hill, George W.— Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861; died of consumption, November 16, 1862, in hospital at Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania. 

Hill, Henry S.— Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany D,' September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Hill, Henry U.— Age, 36 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Sherman, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged, September 9, 1864, at hospital, Rochester, New York. 

Hill, John — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; captured in 
action, 'May 3, 1863, at Fredricksburg, Virginia; transferred to Company 
E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company C, September 17, 1864; 
paroled, no date; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Hilyer, Ezekial— Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Veteran Reserve 
Corps, April 15, 1864; to Company G, this regiment, July 1, 1864; to Com- 
pany A, September 17, 1864; discharged with detachment, June 16, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. 

HiNES, John B.— Age, 22 years. Enlisted and mustered in as private. 
Company G, July 21, 1864; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Hiss, Joseph — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, September 8, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company B, September 11, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; mustered out with com- 
pany, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

HoBART, Alfred C— Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, December 4, 1862; pro- 
moted corporal, June 17, 1864; transferred to Company B, September 17, 
1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washmgton, D. C. 

Hodges, George H.-Age, 37 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years and mustered in as sergeant. Company F, August 28, 1861; pro- 
moted sergeant major, March 29, 1862; discharged for disability, Novem- 
ber 17, 1862, at Bellevue Hospital, New York City; subsequent service as 

captain of Company , One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Infantry. 

Hodges, Lewis C.-Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, ^at James- 
town to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company K, Septem- 
ber 18 1861- re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; transferred to 
Company D, September 17, 1864. In confinement at muster out of com- 
pany. No further record. 

Hodgson, John - Private, Company K. Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred 
to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, September 
17, 1864; to Company C, Twentieth Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, no 
date, from which mustered out, July 10, 1865. 

Hoffman, Christian - Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, Septem- 



New York Volunteers 219 

ber 15, 1861; promoted sergeant, February 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a vet- 
eran, December 16, 1863; wounded in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilder- 
ness, Virginia; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington. 
D. C. 

Hoffman, Frank — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, September 5, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company D, September 
6, 1862; captured in action. May 4, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia; 
paroled, no date; wounded, June 8, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Virginia; trans- 
ferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; died of his wounds. Tune 17 
1865. 

Hoffman, John — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D. this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Hoffman, John C.— Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as 
private. Company B, not stated; no record subsequent to July 3, 1862. 

Hogan, Hugh — Sergeant, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action. 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; died of his wounds, no date. 

HoHENSTEiN, JoHN — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, September 
12, 1861; promoted corporal. May 27, 1862; sergeant, January 22, 1863; 
returned to ranks, February 1, 1863; discharged for disability, April 14, 
1863, at Antietam Hospital, Maryland. 

HoLCH, LuDwiG — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Bufifalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, February 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 
16, 1863; promoted sergeant, October 1, 1864; quartermaster sergeant, 
November 23, 1864; mustered out with regiment, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

HoLDRiDGE, Ira — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, September 
7, 1861; discharged for disability, August 30, 1862, at Fort Wood New 
York. 

Hollander, Chester — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company F, Sep- 
tember 15, 1861 ; deserted, September 25, 1861, from Fort Porter, BuflFalo, 
New York. 

Holt, Erastus D.— Age, 29 years. Enrolled, September 4, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years; mustered in as captain. Company I, Sep- 
tember 6, 1861; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia; mustered in as lieutenant colonel, July 27, 1864; pro- 
moted to colonel, August 20, 1864; wounded in action, April 2, 1865, at 
Petersburg, Virginia; died of his wounds, April 7, 1865, at hospital, City 
Point, Virginia. Commissioned first lieutenant, September 30, 1861,' with 
rank from September 7, 1861, original; captain. November 11, 186l', with 
rank from October 12, 1861, vice Raselas Dickinson, deceased'; lieutenant 
colonel, August 12, 1864, with rank from July 27, 1864, vice George Wash- 



220 History of the 49th Regiment 

ington Johnson, died; colonel, not mustered, November 12, 1864, with rank 
from August 20, 1864, vice Daniel Davidson Bidwell, promoted. 

Hooker, Joseph J.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1863, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company A, September 
4, 1861; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New 
York. 

Hoover, Orlando — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861; promoted corporal, March 1, 1863; re-enUsted in Company 
I, December 16, 1863; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; miss- 
ing in action, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness; killed while trying to escape 
between Charleston and Florence, South Carolina. 

Hopper, James H.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August, 31, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; discharged, no date, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Horgrave, George — Age, years. Enlisted, March 4, 1862, at Buffalo, 

to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company D, March 14, 1862; 
deserted, July 2, 1863. 

Horn, John L.— Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company B, September 19, 1861 ; died of dis- 
ease, September 26, 1862, at Columbia Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

HoRTON, John J.— Age, 27 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years; mustered in as wagoner, Company C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861 ; returned to company as private, no date ; discharged, Jan- 
uary 6, 1863, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

HoRTON, Nathan S.— Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 31, 1863; captured in action, 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; paroled, no date; 
discharged, June 16, 1865. 

HoTCHKiss, David J.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at French 
Creek, to serve three years; mustered in as corporal. Company G, August 
30, 1861; promoted sergeant, April 29, 1862; died, October 24, 1862, at 
hospital. 

HouG, Anthony — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at , to serve three 

years, and mustered in as private, Company G, July 11, 1864; transferred 
to Company B, September 17, 1964; wounded, October 19, 1864, at Cedar 
Creek, Virginia; discharged for disability; no date. 

Houghton, Uriah — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; died of typhoid fever, June 18, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Housam, John — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; to First New York Battery, 
December 5, 1863. 

Howard, Charles -Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Royalton, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 11, 1864; no further 
record. 

Howard, Ervin — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, January 21, 1864; no further record. 



New York Volunteers 221 

Howard, Henry W.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany D, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, November 1, 1864, sergeant, 
June 17, 1865 ; mustered out with companv, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Howard, John — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred 
to Company F, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged for disability, 
February 10, 1864, at Baltimore, Maryland. 

Howard, Peter — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Companv A. Februarv 23. 1865; deserted, March 
22. 1865. 

Howard, Timothy — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buflfalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, December 11, 1863; wounded 
in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar 
Creek, Virginia; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. ; veteran. 

HoYT, Charles N.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company A, Septem- 
ber 16, 1861; deserted, July 18, 1863, from Berlin, Maryland. 

HoYT, George P.— Age, 30 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; captured in 
action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; no further 
record. 

HoYT, Edward J.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Panama, 

to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company G, August 30, 

1861; deserted in September, 1862, from United States General Hospital, 
New York City. 

HuBBELL, Daniel V. B.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company I, August 30, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, January 1, 
1865; mustered out, June 15, 1865, at Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Hubbers, Gerhardt — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Bufifalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; deserted, 
January 16, 1862, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Huber, Bernard — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
died of chronic diarrhoea, November 4, 1862, at hospital, Fairfax Seminary, 
Virginia. 

Hudson, Junior, William S.— Age, 22 years. Enrolled, June 14, 1862, 
at New York City, to serve three years; mustered in as first lieutenant, 
Company I, no date; discharged, February 2, 1863; mustered in as first 
lieutenant. Company C, August 14, 1863; as captain, September 3. 1864; 
wounded in action. May 18. 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; 



222 History of the 49th Regiment 

transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, October 
19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; discharged for disability, March 9, 1865; 
prior service in Company C, Ninth New York Infantry. Commissioned first 
lieutenant. May 17, 1862, with rank from April 1, 1862, vice Walter G. 
Seeley, declined; first lieutenant, August 7, 1863, with rank from January 14, 

1863, vice William Theodore Wiggins, promoted ; captain, September 3, 1864, 
with rank from May 5, 1864, vice William Theodore Wiggins, killed. 

Hughes, James — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, at Oswego, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company G, July 15, 1864; transferred 
to Company B, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, June 17, 1865; mus- 
tered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Hughes, Thomas — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
9, 1861; captured in action, June 30, 1862, at Savage Station, Virginia; 
paroled September 13, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; 
transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; wounded, no date; absent, 
sick in hospital, at muster out of company. 

HuLBURT, William H.— Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Hull, Marvin — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1863 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded in action, July 12, 

1864. at Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. ; died of his wounds, July 13, 
1864. 

Hunt, Elisha W.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as corporal. Company D, August 22, 
1861; promoted first sergeant, no date, second lieutenant. May 31, 1862; 
discharged, November 27, 1862. Commissioned second lieutenant, June 10, 
1862, with rank from May 31, 1862, vice Peter A. Taylor, promoted. 

Hunting, Alva — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; died of disease, September 16, 1862, at Baltimore, Maryland. 

Hunting, Lafayette — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company I, August 
28, 1861; promoted corporal, November 26, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran, 
December 16, 1863; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania 
Court House, Virginia; died of his wounds, June 3, 1864. 

Huri), David — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buflfalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 14, 1864; no further record. 

Hurlbut, Hiram — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, November 26, 1862, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Husteru, James — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buflfalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company D, February 28, 1865; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 



New York Volunteers 223 

HuTCHiNGS, Henry E. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, 
September 20, 1861; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Hutchinson, Michael — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 
31, 1861; promoted sergeant, November 1, 1862; returned to the ranks, 
September 28, 1863 ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Hutchinson, Thomas — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at 
Forestville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 
28, 1861 ; promoted corporal, no date ; deserted, no date. 

Hynes, Thomas — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, October 12, 1862; deserted, 
July 2, 1863. 

Ihler, Joseph — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years ; 
mustered in as private. Company B, January 8, 1864; wounded in action, 
October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia ; discharged for disability, no 
date. 

Ingalsbe, Henry H. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; promoted first sergeant, no date ; wounded and captured in action. 
May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia ; paroled, no date ; re-enlisted as a 
veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania 
Court House, Virginia; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company A, Sep- 
tember 11, 1864; discharged for disability, March 13, 1865. Commissioned 
first lieutenant, August 12, 1864, with rank from July 24, 1864, vice Henry 
C. Valentine, killed ; captain, not mustered, September 16, 1864, with rank 
from July 27, 1864, vice Erastus D. Holt, promoted. 

Ingersoll, Alvah S. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, 
September 4, 1861 ; deserted, June 30, 1862, from White Oak Swamp, Virginia. 

Ingraham, William H. — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry; 
wounded in action. May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia ; transferred to 
Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged for disability, July 
11, 1864, at Annapolis, Maryland. 

Ingram, David — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company D, January 23, 1864; wounded in 
action, July 12, 1864, at Fort Stevens, D. C. ; transferred to Company B, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Ireton, Thomas — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; promoted corporal. May 12, 
1864; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; promoted sergeant, 
January 1, 1865; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

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224 History of the 49th Regiment 

Jackson, Joseph B. — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1862, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
9, 1862; deserted, January 23, 1863, on the march to Falmouth, Virginia. 

Jackson, William — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 1, 1862, at Bakersville, Maryland. 

Jacobs, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Westfield, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
deserted while detached to Sixth United States Artillery near New Market, 
Maryland, June 29, 1863. 

Jamison, Isaac — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 20, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; transferred to Company 
B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Jardine, Robert — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry ; captured, 
May 3, 1863; transferred to Company E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; 
paroled, no date; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged, 
June 16, 1865. 

Jenkins, John A. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, July 31, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
transferred to Company F, November 1, 1862; discharged for disability, 
January 28, 1863, at Washington, D. C. 

Jenkins, John" A. — Age, 25 years. Enrolled, August 22, 1862, at Wash- 
ington, D. C, to serve three years ; mustered in as assistant surgeon, 
September 4, 1862; as surgeon, October 19, 1864; mustered out with regiment, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. Commissioned assistant surgeon, 
September 3, 1862, with rank from August 22, 1862; surgeon, October 25, 
1864, with rank from October 13, 1864, vice James A. Hall, mustered out. 

Jenkins, William E. — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Veteran Reserve 
Corps, March 16. 1864. 

Jessup, Daniel F. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 
4, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Johnson, George — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; transferred to First New York Battery, December 13, 1863. 

Johnson, George Washington — Age, 39 years. Enrolled, .\ugust 1, 1861, 
at Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as major, Ocotber 21, 1861 ; as 
lieutenant colonel, January 1, 1863; wounded in action, July 12, 1864, at Fort 
Stevens, D. C. ; died of his wounds, July 29, 1864. Commissioned major, 
January 20, 1862, with rank from September 18, 1861, original; lieutenant 
colonel, December 24, 1862, with rank from December 10, 1862, vice William 
Clcndenin Alberger, honorably discharged. 

Johnson, Harrison — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Mina, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged, September 9, 1864, from hospital, Rochester, New York. 



New York Volunteers 225 

Johnson, Henry -Age, 26 years. Enlisted at Dunkirk, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, July 15, 1864; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Johnson, John T.— Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
fered to Company D, this regiment. October 1, 1863; wounded in action. 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, 

Johnson, Nathan -Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22 1861 ' 
promoted corporal, July 1, 1862; wounded in action, May 4, 1863 at 
Fredericksburg, Virginia; promoted sergeant, July 1, 1863; captured in action. 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; paroled, February 28, 1865 at 
Wilmmgton, North Carolina; mustered out. May 22, 1865, "at Rochester 
New York. ' 

Johnson, Perry -Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861; dishonorably discharged, no date. 

Johnson, Peter -Age, 42 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 2^ 1861 • 
promoted corporal, August 22, 1861 ; returned to ranks, September 30 1861 ' 
discharged for disability, May 15, 1862, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.' 

Johnson, Samuel -Age, 42 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1862, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H August 31 
1861 ; discharged for disability, December 26, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia.' 
Johnson, William— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 
20, 1861 ; died, December 2, 1862, in hospital, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Jones, David W.-Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Charlotte- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company H, September 
13. 1861; discharged for disability, December 7, 1861, at Camp Griffin 
Virginia. ' 

Jones, Jacob H.— Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Companv G, August 30 1861 ' 
re-enhsted as a veteran, December 16. 1863; transferred to Company A.' 
September 17, 1864; killed in action, April 2, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia! 

Jones, Marshall A.— Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company K.' September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, January 7, 1863, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Jones, Thaddeus W.— Age. 26 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company A. August 24, 
1861 ; discharged, no date. 

Jones. Thomas A.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 27, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded in action. May 



226 History of the 49th Regiment 

5, 1864, at the Wilderness; transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Jones, Wilber S.— Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
died of disease, November 19, 1862, at Fort McHenry, Maryland. 

Jones, William — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, September 5, 
1861 ; captured, June 30, 1862 ; paroled, November, 1862 ; re-enlisted as a 
veteran, December 26, 1863; promoted corporal, July 16, 1864; transferred 
to Company E, September 17, 1864; captured, November 9, 1864; paroled, 
March 22, 1865; mustered out, August 5, 1865, at Elmira, New York. 

Jordan, Samuel S.— Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
died of chronic diarrhea, June 18, 1862, at Yorktown, Virginia. 

Joy, John — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buffalo, to serve 
three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; deserted, 
August 22, 1861, from Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Justice, John H.— Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company C, 
Eleventh Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, April 8, 1864, from which 
mustered out, July 9, 1865, at Providence, Rhode Island. 

Kaiser, William J.— Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861; 
promoted corporal, August 28, 1861; sergeant, November 26, 1862; re-enlisted 
as a veteran, December 16, 1863; mustered in as second lieutenant, April 22, 
1864; transferred to Company C, no date; to Company D, on consolidation, 
September 17, 1864; mustered in as first lieutenant, to date July 12, 1864; 
wounded, September 19, 1864 ; mustered in as captain. Company A, March 12, 
1865 ; absent with leave, at muster out of company, June 27, 1865, no further 
record. Commissioned second lieutenant, November 13, 1863, with rank from 
August 10, 1863, vice James A. Waldron, discharged; first lieutenant, Sep- 
tember 16, 1864, .with rank from May 18, 1864, vice Walter D. Wilder, 
promoted; captain, March 30, 1865, with rank from March 12, 1865, vice 
William S. Hudson, discharged. 

Karr, Adam — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861; 
deserted, September 19, 1861, from Park Barracks, New York City. 

Kaufman, Martin — Age, 17 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as musician. Company D, September 
13, 1861 ; returned to company as private, no date : re-enlisted as a veteran, 
Dcccmue'r 25, 1863 ; appointed musician, no date : transferred to Company B, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865. at Washmg- 
ton, D. C. 

Keele, Andrew H.— Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as wagoner. Company F, Septem- 
ber 16, 1861; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia; discharged, October 25, 1864; subsequent service in Com- 
pany K, Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry. 



New York Volunteers 227 

Keeley, James — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, July 31, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
deserted, June 17, 1863, from Dumfries, Virginia. 

Keers, Matthew — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; captured in action, 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; died of scorbutus, 
August 31, 1864, while a prisoner of war, at Andersonville, Georgia. 

Kellett, Benjamin T. — Age, 23 years. EnHsted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, December 24, 1862; promoted 
corporal, July 1, 1863; captured in action; May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania 
Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; 
paroled, no date ; mustered out, June 12, 1865, at New York City. 

Kelley, George — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company I, November 10, 1861 ; discharged for 
disability, December 11, 1862. 

Kelly, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Utica, to serve three years, and 
mustered in as private, unassigned, Septembzer 19, 1864; no further record. 

Kelly, Thomas J.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
wounded in action. May 4, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia ; absent, in 
hospital at Buffalo, New York, at muster out of company. 

Kendall, Charles A. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, August 
31, 1861; promoted corporal, Alarch 30, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran, 
December 26, 1863; promoted sergeant, March 1, 1864; transferred to Com- 
pany E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Keneally, John — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; wounded in action, June 5, 
1864, at Cold Harbor, Virginia ; died of his wounds, June 6, 1864, at Field 
Hospital, Eighteenth Army Corps. 

Keneley, Michael — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, February 14, 1863, at Convalescent Camp, Fairfax, 
Virginia. 

Kennedy, Lester E. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 1. 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, September 3, 
1862; deserted, August 8, 1864, from Harper's Ferry, Virginia. 

Kennedy, Patrick — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
died of disease, no date, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Kenney, James — Age, years. Enlisted, September 4, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, September 5, 
1861 ; no further record. 

Kerigan, Thomas — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 
20, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded in action. May 



228 History of the 49th Regiment 

10, 1864; at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company E, September 

17, 1864; captured, January 9, 1865; paroled, no date; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Kessler, Hermann — Age, 36 years. Enlisted, January 16, 1864, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B. January 18, 

1864, wounded in action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; mus- 
tered out for disability, June 12, 1865, at Ricord Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Kessler, Jacob — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
appointed musician, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; 
returned to company, as a private, no date ; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Kester, William C. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as corporal. Company B, September 24, 1861 ; returned 
to ranks, May 27, 1863, at Port Columbus Hospital, New York Harbor. 

KiBLER, Peter — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
wounded, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland; died of his wounds, 
October 8, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

KiGAR, Richard — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 

16, 1861 ; wounded at Chickahominy, Virginia, no date ; discharged for his 
wounds, August 14, 1862. 

Kimball, Henry — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; captured, April 2, 1864; 
paroled, no date ; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864 ; captured 
in action, April 2, 1865, near Petersburg, Virginia; paroled, April 9, 1865, at 
Appomattox Court House, Virginia ; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 

1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Kimball, Oscar S. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 

18, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; wounded in action. 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; died of his wounds. May 12, 1864, 
at Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

King, Euward — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, September 16, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company B, November 26, 
1861; returned to ranks in January, 1862; discharged for disability, March 

17, 1863; at Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

King, Frank — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company H, December 15, 1862 ; deserted, 
April 1, 1863, from camp near White Oak Church, Virginia. 

King, Frederick W.— Age, 23 years. Enlisted, -August 23, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 25, 1862 ; 
died of remittent fever, October 28, 1862, at Hagerstown, Maryland. 

King, George H.— Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 
20, 1861; wounded in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 



New York Volunteers 229 

KiNGSLEY, Henry H. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Newstead, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company E, July 13, 1864; wounded 
in action, August 21, 1864, at Flowing Springs, Virginia; transferred to 
Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. 

KiNNENSON, Henry L. — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Kinner, James — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
died, September 21, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Kirchenmeyer, Franz — Age, 36 years. Enlisted, February 12, 1862, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, February 
13, 1862; discharged for disability. May 2, 1862, at camp near Yorktown, 
Virginia. 

KiRSHAW, William — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, November 23, 1862, at hospital, Alexandria, 
Virginia. 

Kitchen, Wesley — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, January 29, 1864; no further 
record. 

Klank, Peter — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, September 13, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 24, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Klein, Joseph — Age, 28 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company B, January 21, 1864; killed in action, 
May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Klein, William — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 28, 
1861; died of diarrhoea, December 16, 1862, at Seminary Hospital, George- 
town, D. C. 

Kline, John — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; mustered out, September 20, 1864, at New York City. 

Knecktell, Jacob — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at New 
York City, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861 ; killed in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Knippel, George — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, August 6, 1862; sergeant, January 1, 1863; mustered 
out with company, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Knop, Carl — Age, 31 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company B, January 7, 1864; wounded and 
captured in action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; died of 
diarrhoea, Septem])er IS, 1864; buried at .\ndersonville, Georgia. Grave 
No. 8868. 



230 History of the 49th Regiment 

Knowlen, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, September 5, 
1861 ; deserted, September 19, 1861, from Park Barracks, "New York City. 

Knowlton, Hiram — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, February 10, 1862. 

KocHANE, Jeremiah — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, January 24, 1865 ; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

KoEHLER, Emil — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as first sergeant. Company B, August 22, 
1861; promoted second lieutenant, March 30, 1862; discharged for disability, 
July 11, 1862. Commissioned second lieutenant, April 5, 1862, with rank 
from March 30, 1862, vice William Wuerz resigned ; subsequent service as 
first lieutenant. Company H, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Infantry. 

KoNiNG, Bernhard — Age, 36 years. Enlisted, September 5, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 
15, 1862; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, September 27, 1863. 

KoRN, Emil. — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Buffalo, to serve 
three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 1861 ; pro- 
moted corporal, same date ; sergeant, September 25, 1861 ; returned to 
ranks, October 7, 1861 ; discharged for disability, March 5, 1863, at Fort- 
ress Monroe, Virginia. 

Kraemer, George. — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, September 5, 1862 ; deserted 
in June, 1863, from hospital at Washington, D. C. 

Kraig, Joseph. — Age, 31 years. Enlisted at Buffalo for three years; mus- 
tered in as private. Company E, January 30, 1865 ; promoted corporal, no 
date ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Kris, James — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company F, March 8, 1862; killed in action, 
June 27, 1862, at Camp Lincoln, Virginia. 

Krupp, Henry — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
24, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 9, 1862, at White Oak Church, 
Virginia. 

Krussa, John — Age, 32 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company F, September 17, 1862; transferred to 
Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

KuN, Herman — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years, and mustered in as private. Company B, January 25, 
1863; deserted, April 13, 1863, from camp near White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Kurtzwart, George — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 
11, 1862; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out 
with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 



New York Volunteers 231 

Lafferty, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company 1, March 8, 1862 ; discharged 
for disability, May 19, 1862. 

Laird, Puny P. — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; August 21, 1864, at Flowing 
Springs, Virginia; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; dis- 
charged, June 16, 1865. 

Lamb, David G. — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; captured. 
May 3, 1863; ' transferred to Company E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; 
paroled, no date; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; dis- 
charged, June 16, 1865. 

Lamb, Russel — Age, 45 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Panama, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, September 1, 1863, at Providence, Rhode Island. 

Lamb, Stephen P. — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Pan- 
ama, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; deserted, June 6, 1862, from Camp Lincoln, Virginia. 

Lambert, Junior, David — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at 
Fredonia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 
24, 1861; as first lieutenant, March 1, 1863; killed in action, July 12, 1864, 
at Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. Commissioned first lieutenant, Feb- 
ruary 27, 1863, with rank from November 20, 1862, vice Franklin J. Foster, 
resigned. 

Lamper, Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, no date. 

Lands, John A. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Portches- 
ter, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 
20, 1861 ; discharged, no date. 

Lane, Nathan W. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; discharged, August 16, 1862, to enlist in United States Army. 

Lane, William H. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; transferred 
to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27. 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Lang, George — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Portchester, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 20, 
1861; deserted, December 11, 1861, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Lang, Thomas — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Buff^alo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 28, 1861 ; 
dishonorably discharged, June 9, 1863. 

Langdon, Area B. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Poland, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, April 29, 1862; discharged for disability, September 15, 
1862, at hospital, Washington, D. C. 



232 History of the 49th Regiment 

Langenbach, David — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 
1861 ; absent in hospital, October 31, 1862. 

Langmyer, Frank — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1862 at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company I, August 30, 1862; 
transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detach- 
ment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Larabee, Cyrus R. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, September 
9, 1861 ; died at hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, no date. 

Larabee, Ithiel S. — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company G, September 
9, 1861 ; discharged for disability, January 17, 1863, at Stanton Hospital, 
Washington, D. C. 

Earned, Henry S. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, November 30, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, December 
2, 1861 ; discharged, August 15, 1863 ; subsequent service as second lieu- 
tenant. Company B, Sixteenth Cavalry. 

Larwood, Lorenzo — Private, Company H. Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, March 11. 
1864. 

Larwood, Robert — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; died, December 25, 
1863, in regimental hospital. Brandy Station, Virginia. 

Larwood, Samuel — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
July 6, 1863, at Fairfield, Pennsylvania; discharged, March 11, 1864. 

Lawcock, Parnell — Age, 23 years. Enlisted. September 17, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Sep- 
tember 24, 1861 ; captured, June 30, 1862 ; paroled, November , 1862 ; 

promoted corporal March 3, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 
1863; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Lawrence, Thomas — Age, 39 years Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as musician, Company H, Sep- 
tember 13, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred 
to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Layer, Adam — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, September 15, 
1861 ; promoted corporal and returned to ranks, no date ; mustered out, 
October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Layton, Charles — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, March 25, 1864; killed in action, July 12, 1864, at 
Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. 

Lee, James — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Brooklyn, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, January 13, 1865 ; no further 
record. 



New York Volunteers 233 

Lee, Robert W. — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, September 11, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company D, September 16, 
1861 ; died of disease, February 10, 1863. 

Lee, Thomas — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, February 23, 1863, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Leland, Dayton R. — Age, 39 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1862, at Cly- 
mer, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, September 
10, 1862; wounded and captured in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania 
Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; dis- 
charged, June 16, 1865. 

Leet, Timothy A. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as wagoner. Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, August 26, 1862, from hospital. 

Lehman, Louis — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 30, 1861 ; 
died of typhoid fever, August 27, 1862, at Chesapeake Hospital, Fortress 
Monroe, Virginia. 

Leib, Jacob — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred to 
Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded, May 12, 1864, at 
Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company D, September 
17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Lenox, Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, November 26, 1862, at Fort Wood, New York 
Harbor. 

Lenox, Solomon — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
died of sunstroke, June 26, 1862, at Camp Lincoln, Virginia. 

Lentz, Simon Washington — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, 
at Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company F, 
August 22, 1861 ; sick and left upon the road during march, September 10, 
1862; no further record. 

Leroy, Charles — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; captured in action, May 12, 
1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; paroled, no date ; mustered out, 
May 31, 1865, at Elmira, New York. 

Leslie, Lewis J. — Age, 40 years. Enlisted at Galen, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company G, July 19, 1864; transferred to Com- 
pany D, September 17, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out of company. 

Levan, William H. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 24, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company H, August 
31, 1861; returned to ranks, April 24, 1862; promoted corporal, March 3, 
1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; returned to ranks, no 
date; deserted, February 5, 1864, from Lockport, New York. 



234 History of the 49th Regiment 

Leveck, Casper — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as sergeant, Company B, August 28, 1861 ; died of 
chronic diarrhoea, January 15, 1863, at Antietam Hospital, Maryland. 

Leveck, Jacob — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as corporal, Company B, August 28, 1861 ; promoted ser- 
geant, November 1, 1862; mustered out with company, October 18, 1864, at 
Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Leveck, John — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years; 
mustered in as private. Company B, August 28, 1861 ; mustered out with 
company, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Levi, Felix — Age, 36 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1862, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, September 11, 1862; 
mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Lewis, Andrew D. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, March 7, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia ; subse- 
quent service in Company H, One Hundred and Fortieth New York Vol- 
unteers. 

Lewis, Charles — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Lockport, to serve one 
year ; mustered in as private. Company E, October 10, 1864 ; captured in 
action, January 9, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia ; paroled, no date ; mus- 
tered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Lewis, Elias D. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, July 12, 1864, at Warsaw, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, July 20, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Lewis, Elisha H. — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Lewis, Milton — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September, 
1861 ; killed in action, April 5, 1862, near Yorktown. Virginia. First man 
from Chautauqua County killed in Civil War. 

Lewis, William H. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 12. 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company A, August 
26, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded. May 5, 
1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; promoted sergeant, September 1, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

LicH, Philip — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 24, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 26, 
1861 ; died, August 10, 1862, in Broad Street Hospital, Philadelphia, Penn- 
sylvania. 

LiEBETRUT, Frederick A. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve 
three years; mustered in as private. Company E, September 15, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, 
June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 



New York Volunteers 235 

LiGHTHALT, MiCHAEL — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; killed in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, 
Virginia. 

LiMBARK, Jacob — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three j-ears ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, no date ; died of chronic diarrhoea, January 14, 1863, 
at Frederick, Maryland. 

LiNBERG, John — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, November 15, 1862, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Lincoln, Jarvie C. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 3, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 2, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; captured in action, May 
4, 1864. at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 
17, 1864; paroled, no date; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

LiNDGUiST, John F. — Age, 18 years. EnHsted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, November 16, 1862, at Fort McHenry, Bal- 
timore, Maryland ; subsequent service as corporal, Company C, Thirteenth 
New York Artillery. 

LiNKLETTER, WiLLiAM — Private, Eighteenth Infantry ; transferred to 
Company D, this regiment, February 11, 1864; deserted. May 4, 1864. 

Linnenbitz, Charles — Age, 26 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, and mus- 
tered in as private. Company B, September 24, 1861 ; supposed to be dead at 
muster out of company. 

Little, George — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; died of typhoid fever, January 5, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

LocKHART, John — Age, date, place of enlistment, and muster in as pri- 
vate. Company D, not stated; deserted, June 17, 1865, from Bailey's Cross 
Roads, Virginia. 

Lodes, William — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 27, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
30, 1861 ; discharged for disability, no date, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Long, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, September 10, 1861 ; 
deserted, 1863, from Harewood General Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Long, Joseph W.— Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, August 28, 1861 ; discharged for disability, October 9, 
1862. 

Longee, Norton B. — Age, 27 years. Mustered in as private. Company E, 
August 31, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 8, 1862, at Acquia 
Creek, Virginia. 



236 History of the 49th Regiment 

LoNSON, Francis — Age, 18 3 ears. Enlisted at Bennington, to serve three 

years, and mustered in as private. Company G, July 22, 1864; transferred 

to Company D, September 17, 1864; deserted, September 22, 1864, from 
battlefield, at Winchester, Virginia. 

LoTZ, William — Age, 39 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company B, March 5, 1862; deserted, Septem- 
ber 18, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland. 

Louden, Amos M. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Louden, George — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Portches- 
ter, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 
20, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, April 13, 1864; wounded in action, June 
6, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Virginia ; transferred to Company E, September 17, 
1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Louden, James — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 11, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, December 
11, 1862; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; deserted, Febru- 
ary 13, 1865. 

LouER, George F. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
died of fever, February 18, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Loux, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1862, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company I, September 3, 1862; 
transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detach- 
ment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

LovELETT, George — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; discharged, February 12, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

LovELETT, Henry — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; died, December 24, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Lower, Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 21, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Luce, Joseph — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
wounded in action, July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; transferred 

to Veteran Reserve Corps, April , 1864; deserted, June 15, 1865, at 

Washington, D. C, as of Forty-second Company, Second Battalion, Veteran 
Reserve Corps. 

Lunney, Thomas W.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, 
September 4, 1861 ; discharged, January . 1863, at Harrisburg, Virginia. 

LusK, Henry N.— Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Ellery, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, June 26, 1862, at Hampton, Virginia. 



New York Volunteers 237 

Lynch, William — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 
13, 1862 ; deserted, July 2, 1863, from jNIanchester, Maryland. 

Lyon, James S. — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred 
to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; killed. May 5, 1864, at the 
Wilderness, Virginia. 

Macarthy, Thomas — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company E, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; captured in 
action. May 3, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia ; paroled, no date ; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Mack, Denny G. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, January 15, 1864. 

Madden, Robert — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Warsaw, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company G, July 15, 1864; transferred to 
Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Mahar, Thomas — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Sep- 
tember 13, 1861; promoted corporal, March 30, 1862; deserted. May 17, 
1863, from Camp White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Mahoney, John — Age, 40 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, April 2, 1862 ; missing in 
action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; no further record. 

Mahoney, Thomas — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned. May 25, 1864; no further 
record. 

Malady, Matthew — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; died of disease, October 21, 1862, at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, 
Virginia. 

Mallory, Zalmon E. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as drummer, Company A, August 

24, 1861 ; died, February 25, 1863, while on sick leave, at Stockton, New 
York. 

Malloy, Patrick — Age, 36 years. Enlisted September 4, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
6, 1861 ; promoted corporal, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 

25, 1863 ; returned to ranks, no date ; wounded in action, July 12, 1864, at 
Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. ; transferred to Company B, September 
17, 1864; to Company H, Nineteenth Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, no 
date; mustered out, July 13, 1865, at Elmira, New York. 

Mark, George — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1862, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 28, 1862 ; 
deserted, July 12, 1863, from near Funkstown, Maryland. 



238 History of the 49th Regiment 

Mark, Joseph — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Markham, Lewis H. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Cly- 
mer, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; returned to ranks, no date ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, 
no date. 

Marks, Augustus — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company F, August 22, 
1861 ; deserted, May 12, 1862, from Williamsburg, Virginia. 

Marsh, Alonzo J. — Age, 36 years. Enrolled, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as captain. Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861 ; discharged, February 4, 1863 ; commissioned captain, January 
20, 1862, with rank from September 18, 1861, original. 

Marsh, Henry N. — Age, 45 years. Enrolled, July 29, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as captain. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, November 6, 1861 ; commissioned captain, Janu- 
ary 20, 1862, with rank from September 6, 1861, original. 

Marsh, Virgil — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged, December 28, 1862, at Fairfax Seminary, Virginia ; subsequent 
service in Company G, Eighth Artillery. 

Marston, Isaac — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 24, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 
25, 1861 ; deserted, October 22, 1861, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Maschke, Charles — Age, 39 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company B, September 24, 1861 ; died 
of chronic dysentery, October 16, 1862, at Hammond General Hospital, 
Point Lookout, Maryland. 

Mather, Amos — Age, 44 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company I, November 14, 1861 ; died of typhoid 
fever, April 10, 1862, at Newport News Hospital, Virginia. 

Mathews, Melvin L. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, December 21, 1863, at 
Gerry, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, December 
22, 1863; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, April 17, 1864. 

Mathews, Andrew J. — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; promoted corporal in November, 1862 ; sergeant, January 
1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, March 25, 1864; wounded, May 12, 1864, at 
Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company D, Septem- 
ber 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Mathias, Jeremiah — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company C, 
September 4, 1861 ; returned to ranks in February, 1862 ; mustered out with 
company, October 18. 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 



New York Volunteers 239 

Maxwell, James H. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; captured, April 2, 1865, 
near Petersburg, Virginia ; paroled, April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, 
Virginia; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

AIay, Calvin L. — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, August 31, 1861; 
missing in action, June 27, 1862, at retreat to Harrison's Landing, Vir- 
ginia; no further record. 

May, Gustavus — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Clymer, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Companj^ A, 
September 17, 1864; captured, September 22, 1864; paroled, March 25, 
1865 ; promoted corporal, April 2, 1865 ; returned to ranks, June 3, 1865 ; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Mazienier, Louis — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
mustered out with company, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New 
York. 

McAndrew, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, December 8, 1862, at Acquia Creek, Virginia. 

McBride, Alexander — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Tarry town, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company C, February 1, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

McCarthy, Florence — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as 
private, Company A, not stated ; discharged, to date June 27 1865. 

McCarthy, John — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted, August 22, 1861, from Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

McCarthy, David — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Brooklyn, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, December 27, 1864; no fur- 
ther record. 

McConnell, Arthur — Age, 41 years. Enlisted at Tarrytown, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company C, December 30, 1863 ; 
transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out 
of company, June 27, 1865. 

McConnell, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

McCrea, John — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
returned to ranks, no date ; discharged for disability, February 14, 1863, at 
Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, Virginia ; subsequent service as wagoner, 
Company H, Fourteenth Cavalry. 

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240 History of the 49th Regiment 

McCuEN, John — Age, 34 years. Enlisted and mustered in as private, 
Company G, July 12, 1864; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; 
deserted, December 12, 1864, from City Point, Virginia. 

McCuEN, Joseph — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; promoted corporal, April 
28, 1864; deserted, July 16, 1864, from Leesburg, Virginia. 

McDermid, Neil — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 24, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

McDonald, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861; promoted corporal. May 1, 1862; mustered out, October 18, 
1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

McDonald, Louis — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, August 18, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company 1, December 18, 
1862; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

McDonald, William E. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company F, August 22, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, March 30, 1863, at Convalescent Camp, 
Alexandria, Virginia. 

McFarlane, William — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company F, August 22, 
1861; deserted, May 12, 1862, from Williamsburg, Virginia; returned, no 
date, and dishonorably discharged, July 26, 1865. 

McGarry, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, November 11, 1864; no fur- 
ther record. 

McGinn, Patrick — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; captured in action, 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany A, September 17, 1864; paroled. May 17, 1865; discharged, with detach- 
ment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

McGoREY, James — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
fered to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; killed, May 12, 1864, 
at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. 

McGuiRE, George — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Utica, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company E, August 1, 1864; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

McGuRK, Felix — Age, 45 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 28, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; transferred to Company B, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

McIntire, James — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 



New York Volunteers 241 

McIntyre, Joseph — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Jamestown, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company K, August 26, 1862 ; dis- 
charged for disability, March 8, 1863, at camp near White Oak Church, 
Virginia. 

McKay, Lewis — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company E, April 5, 1862; re-enlisted as a 
veteran, April 12, 1864; deserted, July IS, 1864, from Washington, D. C. 

McKelvey, Samuel — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 
28, 1861 ; promoted corporal, August 28, 1861 ; sergeant, November 26, 
1862; returned to ranks, August 15, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, Decem- 
ber 16, 1863; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; absent, sick, 
since April 23, 1865 ; no further record. 

McKelvv, Alexander H. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; promoted corporal, January 1, 1863 ; sergeant, February 
4, 1863 ; wounded and captured in action, September 17, 1863, near Cul- 
pepper, Virginia ; paroled, no date ; mustered out, September 24, 1864, at 
New York City. 

McKelvy, James — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; transferred to 
Company D, September 17, 1864; promoted sergeant, no date; discharged 
for disability. May 14, 1865. 

McLain, John — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
transferred to Company I, September 1, 1861 ; discharged for disability, 
December 30, 1862. 

McLaughlan, Andrew — Private, Company C, Thirty-third Infantry; 
captured in action, no date ; paroled in September, 1863 ; transferred to 
Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; transferred to Company B, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

McMahon, Timothy — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, Sep- 
tember 11, 1861; deserted, no date, from hospital, Yorktown, Virginia. 

McMulkin, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, December 10, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, December 
11, 1861 ; deserted, November 2, 1862, from Petersville, Maryland. 

McNamara, Thomas — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 27, 
1862; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged for dis- 
ability, May 26, 1865. 

McNeil, John — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 14, 1864; no further record. 

McNerney, Thomas — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 



242 History of the 49th Regiment 

1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded, no date ; dis- 
charged for disability, September 10, 1864. 

McNiVEN, James — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; deserted, 
February 5, 1864, on expiration of furlough. 

McQuE, Edward — Age, 36 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company I, November 11, 1861; died of 
disease, November 30, 1862, at New York City Hospital. 

McVeane, John P.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company D, September 
7, 1861 ; returned to ranks, November 18, 1862 ; promoted corporal, Janu- 
ary 2, 1863 ; sergeant, May 4, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 
1863; promoted second lieutenant, no date; killed in action, May 10, 1864, at 
the Wilderness, Virginia. Commissioned second lieutenant, October 6, 1863, 
with rank from June 16, 1863, vice William T. Bliss, dismissed. 

Meekings, William — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, March 26, 1863, at Convalescent Camp, 
Alexandria, Virginia. 

Mehrvadt, Charles — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, March 10, 1862, at Camp Grififin, Virginia ; 
subsequent service in Company B, Eighth New York Artillery. 

Meissner, Ernst — Age, 17 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as musician, Company B, August 28, 1861 ; discharged, 
no date. 

Merchant, Milton J. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 5, 1861, at 
Forestville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, Sep- 
tember 6, 1861 ; discharged for disability, September 25, 1862. 

Merrick, George — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, unassigned, August 27, 1862 ; 
no further record. 

Merrill, Robert — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, no date ; killed in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsyl- 
vania Court House, Virginia. 

Merritt, Lafayette — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861; wounded. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; mus- 
tered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Mertz, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 17, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, September 18, 1861; 
discharged for disability, January 10, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Messenger, Daniel — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, no date. 



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Metz, George — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Medina, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 13, 
1861 ; promoted sergeant, no date ; died, October 20, 1862, at Harevi^ood 
Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Meyer, Augustus B. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 20, 1861, at 
New York City, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company 
B, November 26, 1861; promoted first sergeant, June 11, 1862; re-enlisted 
as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; mustered in as second lieutenant, Com- 
pany C, December 24, 1864; as first lieutenant, Company E, May 23, 1865; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. Commis- 
sioned second lieutenant, November 30, 1864, with rank from November 18, 
1864, vice French W. Fisher, promoted; first lieutenant, May 11, 1865, 
with rank from March 30, 1865, vice Lewis Cass Richards, appointed 
quartermaster. 

Miles, Franklin — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Miles, Thomas J. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Qy- 
mer, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, September 
7, 1861 ; killed, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland. 

Miller, Albert C. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Har- 
mony, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 
1861; promoted corporal, January 1, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran, Decem- 
ber 16, 1863 ; wounded in action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; mustered out with com- 
pany, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Miller, Charles — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, December 23, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, December 
28, 1862; wounded in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; 
captured and paroled, no dates ; absent, sick, at muster out of company, 
June 27, 1865 ; no further record. 

Miller, Freeman — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Har- 
monj^ to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; promoted corporal, May 4, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, Decem- 
ber 16, 1863; wounded in action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, Octo- 
ber 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; discharged for disability, March 
25, 1865. 

Miller, Gibert — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as musician, Company C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861 ; returned to company as private, no date ; mustered out with 
company, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Miller, Henry — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at New York 
City, to serve three j^ears ; mustered in as corporal, Company C, September 
20, 1861 ; promoted sergeant, December 1, 1861 ; returned to ranks, Febru- 
ary 27, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 



244 History of the 49th Regiment 

Miller, Nelson — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company F, September 27, 1861 ; deserted, 
October 2, 1861, from Buffalo, New York; returned to duty, February 1, 
1862; deserted, May 12, 1862, from Williamsburg, Virginia. 

MiNARD, William E. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve one 
year, and mustered in as private, Company E, February 14, 1865 ; mus- 
tered out witli company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

MiNEK, George R. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
14, 1861 ; absent, sick, at muster out of company. 

Moan, Charles — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, December 23, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

MoELLER, John — Age. 40 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, October 7, 1863, at Washington, 
D. C. 

MoHR, Martin — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
appointed bugler, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

MoLiN, Lawrence — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in 
action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to 
Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, 
at Washington, D, C. 

Monahan, Peter — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as pri- 
vate. Company D, not stated ; recruit ; mustered out with company, June 
27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Monroe, Richard — Age, 21 years. EnHsted, August 26, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 31, 
1861 ; died of chronic diarrhoea, December 24, 1862, at Fairfax, Virginia. 

MoNROW, Richard — Age, 26 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, February 1, 1865 ; mus- 
tered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Montgomery, George — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company F. January 6, 1862; transferred 
to Company C, September 17, 1864; killed in action, October 19, 1864, at 
Cedar Creek, Virginia. 

Moore, Augustus — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; wounded in action. 
May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out of company. 



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Moore, Frank — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Sheldon, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company G, July 21, 1864; transferred to Com- 
pany A, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Moore, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, April 13, 1862, at camp ,near Yorktown, 
Virginia. 

Moore, John — Age, 22) years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Portchester, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 20, 
1861; deserted, December 11, 1861, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

iMooRE, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company D, February 15, 1862; deserted, August 
4, 1862, from Harrison's Landing, Virginia. 

MoRiARTY, Philip S. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 
1861; promoted corporal, no date; returned to ranks, no date; promoted 
sergeant, July 18, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; pro- 
moted first sergeant, April 25, 1864; killed in action. May 12, 1864, at 
Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. 

Morris, Henry — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, September 10, 1864; no further 
record. 

Morris, Samuel A. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Sep- 
tember 5, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred to 
Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Morrison, William — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 
1861 ; transferred to the Navy, December 6, 1863. 

Moser, Frank — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, no date; returned to ranks, September 1, 1862; re-enlisted 
as a veteran, February 9, 1864; wounded, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, 
Virginia ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Moses, Augustus F. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Mosier, James H. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at Medina, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 13, 
1861 ; deserted, September 19, 1861, from Park Barracks, New York City. 

Moss, Charles H. — Age, 26 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as captain. Company H, October 21, 1861; 
died of typhoid fever, March 26, 1862, at Lockport, New York. Commis- 
sioned captain, January 20, 1862, with rank from September 6, 1861, original. 



246 History of the 49th Regiment 

Moss, Frank P.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, November 4, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, November 5, 
1861 ; captured in action, October 16, 1863, at Chantilly, Virginia ; exchanged, 
December 24, 1864; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; dis- 
charged, February 9, 1865. 

MoTCH, Frank — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, December 6, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

MouRAY, Sebastian — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Little Falls, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company G, July 16, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 
1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. 

MoYLAN, Isaac — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1862, at Ellicott, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private, Company E, August 22, 1862; 
deserted, July 15, 1864, from Bolivar Heights, Virginia. 

Mueller, Jacob — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 

years, and mustered in as private, Company B, September 20, 1861 ; promoted 

corporal, April 10, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; killed 
in action, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Mueller, John — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, September 28, 1861 ; 
died, July 7, 1862, on board of hospital steamer en route to Portsmouth, 
Rhode Island. 

Mulkie, William — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1862, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, September 
10, 1862; transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; discharged with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Mulkin, Erastus — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company I, August 28, 
1861; promoted second lieutenant, June 14, 1862; wounded, December 13, 
1862, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; dismissed, February 10, 1863. Commis- 
sioned second lieutenant, June 23, 1862, with rank from June 14, 1862, vice 
James A. Boyd, promoted. 

Mullen, Richard — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 
20, 1861 ; died, no date or place. 

Muller, Frederick — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, May 8, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, no date ; died, 
September 21, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Muller, John — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company D, September 10, 1861 ; deserted, no 
date, from hospital, Yorktown, Virginia. 

Muller, Rudolph — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, September 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 14, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; wounded, May 5, 1864, 



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at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; 
absent, wounded, at muster out of company. 

MuNS, George T. — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company D, September 9, 1861, 
as second lieutenant. Company I, May 17, 1863; mustered out, October 18, 
1864, at Buffalo, New York. Commissioned second lieutenant, April 7, 1863, 
with rank from February 10, 1863, vice Erastus Mulkins, dismissed. 

MuRDOCK, Spencer — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
died, October 21, 1862, at Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Murphy, Charles A. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, November 12, 1862, at Convalescent Camp, 
Virginia. 

Murphy, Patrick — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 2, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, April 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 
1863; killed in action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Murphy, Philip J. — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Clarence, to serve one 
year, and mustered in as private, Company C, April 10, 1865 ; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Murray, Dennis — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company H, December 15, 1862; trans- 
ferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Myers, Frank — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
died of disease, no date, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Myers, John — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 5, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 13, 
1861; discharged, July 14, 1863. 

Mylacraine, John E. — Corporal, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; 
wounded in action. May 4, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia ; transferred 
to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action. May 6, 
1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; promoted sergeant, September 1, 1864; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detach- 
ment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Nabholz, Jacob — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted, September 1, 1862, near Bakersville, Maryland; returned, January 
2, 1865 ; discharged for disability, no date. 

Nagel, Charles — Age, 38 years. Enlisted at Poughkeepsie, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company B, July 14, 1864; wounded 
in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; absent at muster out 
of company. 



248 History of the 49th Regiment 

Nash, Daniel W.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
died of typhoid fever, December 10, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Navel, Charles — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, October 16, 1861, at Camp 
Big Chestnut, Virginia, to serve three years; mustered in as fife major, 
October 21, 1861; discharged in November, 1862; prior service as fifer, 
Company G, Twenty-first New York Infantry. 

Neeson, Edward — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 3, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
captured in action, June 27, 1862, at retreat to Harrison's Landing, Virginia; 
absent, at Parole Camp, April 10, 1863; no further record. 

Nelligan, Michael — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry ; cap- 
tured in action, May 3, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia ; paroled, no date ; 
transferred to Company E, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company C, 
September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Nelson, Patrick — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, January 15, 1863, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Nelson, Adelbert — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 13, 1864; no further 
record. 

Nelson, Edward — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, December 2, 1862; deserted, 
July 2, 1863. 

Nelson, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, x'\ugust 15, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, November 12, 1862; died of chronic diarrhoea, 
November 14, 1862, at Newton University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. 

Neuhauser, George — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, September 2, 1862 ; wounded 
in action, August 21, 1864, near Charlestown, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; mustered out, June 26, 1865, at Jarvis Hospital, 
Baltimore, Maryland. 

Neumann, Francis — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company B, January 21, 1864; wounded 
in action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; absent, wounded, at 
muster out of company. 

Neuroth, George — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, September 29, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 
30, 1861; deserted, July 1, 1863, near Manchester, Maryland. 

Nevins, Madison J. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I. August 28, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, November 22, 1862. 

Newman, Arthur — Age, 26 years. Enlisted at Fredonia, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, September 3, 1861 ; re-enlisted 
as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded in action. May 6, 1864, at the 
Wilderness, Virginia ; died of his wounds, June 23, 1864. 



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Nicholas, John G. — Private, Company I, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; promoted sergeant, March 16, 1865; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Nichols, William H. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, no date ; killed in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania 
Court House, Virginia. 

NiTzscHMAN, Charles — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company B, August 28, 1861 ; 
wounded in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; mustered out, 
October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Nolan, William J. — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; captured in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany B, September 17, 1864; paroled, no date; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Nolte, Henry — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 8, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 9, 1861 ; 
appointed wagoner, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Noon, James — Private, Company K, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, July 12, 
1864, at Fort Stevens, D. C. ; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; 
mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Normanton, John — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company G, July 13, 1864; transferred to 
Company D, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at 
Cedar Creek, Virginia ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

NoRRis, John D. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; died, June 29, 1862, at hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia. 

Northrup, Gilbert — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, January 29, 1862, at hospital, Alexandria, 
Virginia. 

Noyes, James H. — Sergeant, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company F, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Nugent, James — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company F, September 12, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; wounded in action, May 
6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company C, September 
17, 1864; discharged for disability, January 12, 1865. 



250 History of the 49th Regiment 

Nugent, Patrick — Private, Company K, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

NuTT, Seldon C— Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; discharged for disability, October 1, 1862, at hospital, Alexandria, 
Virginia. 

Odell, Hiram — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 9, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; transferred to Company 
E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Oder, Hugo — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as corporal. Company D, September 11, 
1861 ; discharged, January 3, 1863. 

O'DoNNELL, Edward — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; to Company G, Febru- 
ary 15, 1864; to Company A, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detach- 
ment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

O'Hara, James — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, September 5, 
1861 ; transferred to United States Signal Corps, no date. 

Olds, Horace — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged, to date September 3, 1864. 

Olmstead, Daniel — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; died of disease, October 28, 1862, at hospital, Washington, D. C. 

O'Malley, John — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned. May 23, 1864; no further 
record. 

O'Neill, John — Age, 31 years. Enlisted at Conewango, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, January 20, 1864; killed in 
action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

O'Regan, Timothy — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; killed in action. May 
12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. 

Orr, Henry C— Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; pro- 
moted sergeant, April 1, 1864; captured in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsyl- 
vania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; 
paroled, December 23, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Orr, Thomas — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Sherman, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 



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promoted corporal, March 1, 1863; killed in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsyl- 
vania Court House, Virginia. 

Ortobein, Gabriel — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company B, December 9, 1863; wounded 
in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; absent, wounded, at 
muster out of company. 

Ortwein, John — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 1861; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred to Company E, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

OsBORN, John — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, September 25, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 26, 
1862; captured in action. May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; paroled, 
no date; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Palmer, Charles — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861 ; deserted, June 1, 1862, from Cold Harbor, Virginia. 

Palmer, Charles H. — Age, 28 years. Enrolled, August 10, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as captain. Company C, September 
4, 1861 ; discharged December 18, 1861. Commissioned captain, September 4, 
1861, original. 

Palmer, Danford M. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 15, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; deserted, November 18, 1861, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Palmer, Ferris — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company C, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861 ; wounded in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; 
mustered out with company, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New 
York. 

Palmeter, Francis — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, November 19, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, 
November 21, 1861; discharged for disability, November 5, 1862; at Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania. 

Palmiter, John W. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company A, August 
24, 1861 ; discharged for disability, October 3, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Palmore, James W. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Warsaw, and mustered 
in as private. Company G, July 20, 1864; transferred to Company C, Septem- 
ber 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Parker, Cyrus W. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 
1861; died, March 28, 1862, at Market Street Hospital, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 



252 History of the 49th Regiment 

Parker, Franklin B. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; promoted corporal, no date ; wounded in action, September 23, 1863 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action. May 10, 1864, 
at the Wilderness, Virginia; died of his wounds, May 15, 1864. 

Parnwell, Elijah — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, September 4, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Parnwell, Samuel — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, September 
9, 1861 ; died of chronic diarrhoea, September 17, 1862, at Georgetown, D. C. 

Partridge, George — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, January 27, 1864, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, January 30, 1864; 
killed in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; prior 
service as private. Company G, Twenty-first Infantry. 

Pascit, John — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Forestville, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as musician, Company I, August 28, 1861 ; 
returned to company as private, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran and 
appointed musician, December 16, 1863 ; transferred to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Patrick, William P. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at White Plains, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company F, January 8, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 
27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Paul, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, December 15, 1863, at Brandy 
Station, Virginia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, 
December 16, 1863; missing in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia; no further record; a veteran. 

Payne, Richard — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, February 27, 1865 ; mustered 
out with Company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Payton, William — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 30, 1862, at Lock- 
port, to serve tliree years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
11, 1862; wounded in action. May 9, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; trans- 
ferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Pearce, Samuel W. — Corporal, Company C, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded. May 12, 
1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; died of his wounds, May 28, 
1864, at Washington, D. C. 

Pendergest, Thomas — Age, 28 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, January 17, 1863; transferred 
to Company B, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, January 1, 1865; 
sergeant, June 17, 1865; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 



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Peririe, Theodore — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 27, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; wounded. May 30, 1862 ; discharged for disability, February 5, 1863, 
at Convalescent Camp, near Alexandria, Virginia. 

Perrins, Peter — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, November 10, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, November 16, 
1862; deserted, July 17, 1863, from Boonsboro, Maryland. 

Perry, Egbert — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private; Company H, August 31, 1861; 
discharged for disability, December 16, 1862, at Annapolis, Maryland. 

Perry, Elias — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, February 11, 1864; transferred to Company E, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Perry, Jefferson — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
deserted, October 6, 1862, from Boonsboro, Maryland. 

Peters, Frederick — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, August 31, 
1861; promoted corporal, November 1, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran, Decem- 
ber 26, 1863; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Peterson, John — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, March 8, 1863, at camp, near White Oak Church, 
Virginia. 

Pettel, Henry S. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Colden, to serve one year, 
and mustered in as private. Company E, February 21, 1865; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Pharo, Stephen M. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Septem- 
ber 11, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever, December 21, 1861, at Camp Griffin, 
Virginia. 

Phelps, James Henry — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 31, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, August 1, 1862, at Harrison's Landing, 
Virginia. 

Phelps, Josiah Q. — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Panama, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, December 19, 1862, at Frederick City, Maryland. 

Pickett, John H. — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as hospital steward, August 23, 1862 ; 
as assistant surgeon, December 16, 1862 ; mustered out with regiment, 
October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. Commissioned assistant surgeon, 
December 26, 1862; with rank from December 16, 1862, vice William Warren 
Potter, promoted. 



254 History of the 49th Regiment 

Pickett, Russell E. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at 
Forestville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, Sep- 
tember 6, 1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, February 15, 1864. 

PiERKEL, Bend — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company B, December 22, 1863 ; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Pike, Harmon — Private, Company I, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; mustered out with detach- 
ment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Piper, Henry W. — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

PixLEY, George W. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Somerset, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company H, Sep- 
tember 13, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever, December 30, 1861, at Camp Griffin, 
Virginia. 

Plant, Anthony — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company G, July 1, 1864; transferred to 
Company A, September 17, 1864; deserted, September 19, 1864, from 
Winchester, Virginia. 

Plant, George W. — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; discharged, February 12, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Plattner, Albert A. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action. May 
8, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; dishonorably discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Plogsted, John F. E. — Age, 39 years. Enrolled, August 1. 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as captain. Company B, October 
21, 1861; discharged for disability, August 7, 1862; again mustered in as 
captain. Company B, October 15, 1862; killed in action, May 6, 1864, at the 
Wilderness, Virginia. Commissioned captain, January 20, 1862, with rank 
from September 5, 1861, original; captain, reappointed, October 11, 1862, 
with rank from August 7, 1862, vice himself, resigned. 

Ploss, Simeon H.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 18, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, November 24, 1862, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

PoiLLON, Aaron B. — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861; died, October 30, 1862, at hospital. Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Popp, Gottfried — .Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
died, September 1, 1862, at Mill Creek Hospital, near Fortress Monroe, 
Virginia. 

Porter, Charles H.— Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861; discharged for disability, January 1, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 



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Porter, Dolphus S. — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged for dis- 
ability. May 15, 1865. 

Porter, Isaac N. — Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Lockport, to serve three 
years; mustered in as corporal. Company PI, August 31, 1861; discharged 
for disability, June 6, 1863, at hospital, Annapolis, Maryland. 

Porter, William — Private, Company D, Twenty-first Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, November 1, 1861 ; discharged. May 
22, 1863; subsequent service in Thirty-third Independent Battery. 

Porter, William — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Lockport, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 10, 1864; no further 
record. 

Potter, William Warren — Age, 24 years. Enrolled, September 16, 
1861, at Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as assistant surgeon, 
September 16, 1861; discharged, December 27, 1862; subsequent service as 
surgeon, Fifty-seventh Infantry. Commissioned assistant surgeon, January 
20, 1862, vi^ith rank from September 16, 1861, original. 

Powell, William — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, January 28, 1865 ; captured 
in action, March 27, 1865; absent, a paroled prisoner, at muster out of com- 
pany. 

Powers, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Oswego, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, July 18, 1864; transferred 
to Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Pratt, Orlin — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Fredonia, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action. May 6, 
1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia, and October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, 
Virginia ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Pratt, Samuel L. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; wounded, and cap- 
tured in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to 
Company D, September 17, 1864; paroled, September 12, 1864; discharged, 
February 13, 1865, at Parole Camp, Annapolis, Maryland. 

Pratt, Warren J.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861; returned to ranks, in July, 1862; captured, May 6, 1863; 
paroled, October 1, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; absent, sick, at muster out of 
company. 

Preble, James — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, November 25, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, January 7, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virginia; 
subsequent service in Company K, Twelfth New York Volunteer Cavalry. 

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256 History of the 49th Regiment 

Preston, Francis — Age, 34 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company K, February 17, 1862; died of 
disease, August 14, 1862, at hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Preston, George — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Preston, Reuben M. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; promoted sergeant, in May, 1862 ; mustered in as second 
lieutenant, September 19, 1862; as first lieutenant, February 4, 1863; killed 
in action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. Commissioned second 
lieutenant, December 19, 1862, with rank from September 19, 1862, vice 
Hiram N. Smith, promoted ; first lieutenant, February 27, 1863, with rank 
from February 4, 1863, vice Hiram N. Smith, promoted. 

Price, Chauncey — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; died of disease, in November, 1862, at hospital, Hagerstown, 
Maryland. 

Proesse, Gottlieb — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, September 11, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
16. 1861 ; missing in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Virginia ; no further record. 

Proudfoot, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Seneca Falls, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company K, September 11, 1862; 
wounded in action, May 3, 1863, at Marye's Heights, Virginia; also July 3, 
1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; discharged for disability, May 12, 1864. 

PuLFORD, Schuyler — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; no further record than present April 30, 1865. 

Purcell, Patrick — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
died of chronic diarrhoea, September 8, 1862, at Satterlee Hospital, Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania. 

Purdy, James D.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Har- 
mony, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 
30, 1861; captured in action, May 4, 1863, at Fredricksburg, Virginia; 
paroled in November, 1863; mustered out with company, October 18, 1864, at 
Buffalo, New York. 

Pygus, Abram — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years; mustered in as corporal. Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; promoted sergeant, no date ; discharged for disability, January 18, 
1863, at Camp White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Quaintanck, AiJPis J.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; wounded in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Vir- 
ginia ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 



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QuATLANDER, Jacod — Age, 18 ycars. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, March 7, 1864; captured in 
action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred 
to Company C, September 17, 1864; absent, prisoner of war, at muster out 
of company. 

Radu, Charles C. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 1861; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; discharged, to date, June 7, 
1865. 

Raiber, Frederick — Age, 44 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company B, September 24, 1861 ; dis- 
charged for disability, December 19, 1862, at Washington, D. C. ; died Janu- 
ary 10, 1863, at Carver Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Rathgeber, Jacob — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, August 22, 1861 ; returned to ranks, November 4, 1861 ; 
discharged, no date ; no further record. 

Reardon, Edward — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Warsaw, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, June 8, 1864; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Reckard, Orman F. — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; discharged with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Redman, James — Age, Zl years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, June 3, 1864; no further 
record. 

Redpath, Robert E. — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 11, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 
1861 ; deserted, February 24, 1862, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Reed, George — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Rochester, to serve one year, 
and mustered in as private, Company I, August 12, 1864; transferred to 
Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Reed, William — Age, 23 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company G, July 14, 1864; transferred 
to Company D, September 17, 1864; deserted, September 22, 1864, from 
Winchester, Virginia. 

Reiley, John — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as private. 
Company D, not stated; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Reinard, John F. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; killed in action, 
May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 



258 History of the 49th Regiment 

Relf, William E.— Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company D, September 

16, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany B, September 17, 1864; killed in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar 
Creek, Virginia. 

Remington, Charles — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 
28, 1861; promoted corporal, no date; died of disease, September 30, 1862, 
at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Remington, Frank — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; promoted sergeant, no date ; died of disease, no date. 

Rendine, Frederick, alias John Smith — Private, Company , Eigh- 
teenth Infantry; transferred to Company D, this regiment, February 11, 
1864; to Company B, September 17, 1864; absent, in arrest at muster out 
of company. 

Reynolds, George E. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, 
September 4, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; captured, 
August 21, 1864, at Charlestown, Virginia ; transferred to Company E, 
September 17, 1864; paroled, no date; mustered out with company, June 
n, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Reynolds, Norman — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 
30, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; promoted corporal, 
April 22, 1865 ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Rice, Elijah — Private, Company C, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, September 

17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

Rice, Henry B. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted at Jamestown, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company K, November 18, 1861 ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; discharged, November 19, 1864. 

Rich, Benedict — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; died of phthisis pulmonalis, October 24, 1862, at Annapolis Junction, 
Maryland. 

Rich, George T. — Age, 36 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, March 8, 1862 ; promoted 
:orporal, no date ; deserted, July 2, 1863. 

Rich, Silas G. — .^ge, 21 years. Enlisted at Warsaw, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company G, July 19. 1864; transferred 
to Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out witli company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Richards, John H. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company 1'. August 



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22, 1861; promoted sergeant, March 21, 1862; killed in action. May 10, 
1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Richards, Lewis Cass — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, September 18, 1862, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, Sep- 
tember 19, 1862; promoted quartermaster sergeant, October 15, 1862; mus- 
tered in as first lieutenant. Company E, November 23, 1864; as quarter- 
master, April 15, 1865; mustered out with regiment, June 27, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. Commissioned first lieutenant, September 30, 1864, with rank 
from September 5, 1864, vice David Lambert, Junior, killed; quartermaster, 
March 30, 1865, vvith rank from September 17, 1864, vice James A. Boyde, 
mustered out. 

Richardson, James — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company I, March 13, 1862; discharged 
for disability, October 18, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

RiCHBURG, Henry — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, February 1, 
1864, by order of the War Department. 

Richmond, Bela P. — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged for dis- 
ability. May 31, 1864. 

Rider, Jacob — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, February 10, 1864, at Brandy 
Station, Virginia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company 
B, February 11, 1864; wounded in action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania 
Court House, Virginia, and on August 21, 1864, at Charlestown, West Vir- 
ginia ; discharged for disability, December 19, 1864, on surgeon's certificate. 

Rieck, August — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Stockton, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
mustered out with company, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Rinker, George — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 11, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, no date; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; 
transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, Octo- 
ber 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia ; mustered out with company, June 
27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Rinker, Jacob — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, at Cobleskill, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, March 17, 1864; no further 
record. 

Ritter, Frank T. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 
5, 1861 ; promoted corporal, April 18, 1863 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, Decem- 
ber 16, 1863 ; wounded in action, March 25, 1865, near Petersburg, Virginia ; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Roach, Thomas W. — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded, May 6, 
1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; discharged for disability. May 10, 1865, at 
Rochester, New York. 

Roach, William E. — Second lieutenant, detachment Thirty-third New 
York Infantry ; transferred to Company E, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; 



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to Company C, no date ; captured June 30, 1864, at Ream's Station, Vir- 
ginia; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; paroled, no date; 
mustered out. May 15, 1865. 

RoBBiNS, William — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, December 4, 1863, at Gerry, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, December 21, 
1863; wounded in action, July 12, 1864, at Fort Stevens, Washington, D. C. ; 
transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; discharged for disability, 
March 28, 1865. 

Roberts, Edward N. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, August 28, 1861 ; promoted 
corporal, December 1, 1862; deserted, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Penn- 
sylvania. 

Roberts, Junior, George — Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Robins, Devvitt C. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; appointed wagoner, no date ; mustered out, September 29, 1864, 
at New York City. 

Robinson, Avery R. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years ; mustered in as first sergeant. Company I, 
August 28, 1861; returned to ranks, no date; transferred to Veteran 
Reserve Corps, December 1, 1863. 

Robinson, Fayette — Age, 17 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as musician. Company E, August 
31, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Robinson, Joseph C. — Age, 41 years. Enlisted at Sheldon, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company G, June 27, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Robins, Martin — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; wounded in action. 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Company D, 
Septeml)er 17, 1864; promoted corporal, June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Robinson, William H. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at 
Fredonia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, .August 
24, 1861 ; discharged for chronic diarrhoea, March 7, 1863, at Camp White 
Oak Church, Virginia. 

Rockwell, Daniel — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever, November 13, 1862, at hospital, llagers- 
town, Maryland. 



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RoDER, Charles — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, September 
4, 1862; wounded in action. May 5, 1863, and died of his wounds. May 31, 
1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia. 

RoDGERS, Henry — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Gainesville, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company H, August 16, 1864; no further 
record. 

Rodgers, Joseph E. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; to Sixteenth Company, Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve 
Corps, no date ; mustered out, October 12, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

RoDWAY, William J. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, November 27, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, 
December 7, 1861 ; discharged for disability, April *15, 1863, at White Oak 
Church, Virginia. 

Roehm, Henry — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, February 11, 1864. 

Rogers, Henry — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company I, December 4, 1862 ; promoted 
corporal, April 1, 1863; sergeant, August 15, 1863; wounded, May 12, 1864, 
and died of his wounds. May 21, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Virginia. 

Rogers, William — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Elba, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, September 10, 1864; no further 
record. 

Rogers, William B. — Private, Company I, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company F, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

RoMAiNE, Albert — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at New York City, to serve 
one year, and mustered in as private, unassigned, March 28, 1865 ; mus- 
tered out with detachment. May 8, 1865, at Hart Island, New York Harbor. 

RooNEY, Peter — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 2, 1864 ; no further record. 

RooNEY, William — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 9, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

RoscH, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 20, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, September 21, 
1861 ; discharged for defective vision, March 14, 1863, at hospital, York, 
Pennsylvania. 

Rose, Abraham W. — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, June 29, 1864, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, July 1, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 



262 History of the 49th Regiment 

Rose, Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 31, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, March 26, 1863, at White Oak Church, Virginia. 

Rose, John Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 19. 1861, at l.ock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; deserted, December 20, 1862, from Harewood Hospital, Washington, 
D. C. 

Ross, Frank — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company F, August 26, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, no date ; deserted in October or November while on 
recruiting service at Buffalo, New York. 

Ross, John — Age, 34 years. Enlisted at Newfane, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 1, 1864; no further record. 

Roth, Theodore. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
transferred to Battery L, Fifth United States Artillery, December 29, 1862. 

RouLEND, Charles — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, April 10, 1865 ; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Rounds, Asa — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, January 9, 1863, at camp near White Oak 
Church, Virginia. 

Rowan, James — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged, no date. 

Rowan, Martin W. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 
24, 1861 ; discharged for disability, February 13, 1863, at Harewood Hos- 
pital, Washington, D. C. 

Rowlands, Robert — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 17, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, September 
18, 1862; transif.rred to First New York Battery, December 5, 1863. 

RoYAN, Christian — Age, 46 years. Enlisted at Allegany, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company G, June 4, 1864 ; transferred to 
Company B, September 17, 1864; killed in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar 
Creek, Virginia. 

RuHLE, William — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, September 10, 1861 ; pro- 
moted corporal, March 12, 1863; killed in action, July 12, 1864, at Fort 
Stevens, Washington, D. C. 

Rundschu, John — Age, 40 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company B, September 30, 1861 ; died, 
August 2, 1862, in hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Rush, William — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D. September 
30, 1862; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; wounded in 



New York Volunteers 263 

action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; absent at muster out 
of company. 

Russell, Nathaniel J.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Sep- 
tember 11, 1861; promoted sergeant, no date; died of chronic diarrhoea, 
November 19, 1862, at Hagerstown, Maryland. 

Russell, Junior, Solomon W. — Age, 25 years. Enrolled and mustered in 
first lieutenant, Company B, June 17, 1863; as captain, September 14, 1864; 
transferred to Company D, on consolidation, September 17, 1864; mus- 
tered in as major, April 16, 1865; mustered out with regiment, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. ; prior service in Seventh New York 
Cavalry and Eighteenth New York Infantry. Commissioned first 
lieutenant and adjutant, June 17, 1863, with rank from June 17, 1863, vice 
William S. Bull ; captain, September 9, 1864, with rank from May 6, 1864, 
vice John F. E. Plogsted, killed in action; major. May 17, 1865, with rank 
from April 1, 1865, vice George Holden Selkirk, promoted ; not mustered as 
major; wounded, April 6, 1865. 

Russell, Thomas — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three 3'ears ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, September, 1862, at hospital, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

RussERT, Christian — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, January 20, 1864, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, January 
30, 1864; wounded in action, July 12, 1864, at Fort Stevens, Washington, 
D. C. ; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Ryan, George — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
deserted, November 6, 1862. 

Ryan, James — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three year.s, 
and mustered in as private, Company G, July 12, 1864; transferred to 
Company C, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, September 19, 1864, 
at Winchester, Virginia ; absent, wounded, at muster out of company. 

Ryan, John — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Newfane, to serve three years 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 1, 1864; no further record. 

Sacker, John — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, September 11, 
1862; deserted, October 27, 1862, from Hagerstown, Maryland. 

Sackett, Zaven J. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; returned to ranks in 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 
1863 ; appointed wagoner, no date ; transferred to Company D, September 
17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Salmon, David — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, December 20, 1862. 



264 History of the 49th Regiment 

Sampson, Lucius W. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at 
Westfield, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 
30, 1861; discharged for disability, December 20, 1862. 

Sanders, Charles — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, July 1, 1864, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company I, July 4, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out, May 10, 1865, at 
Baltimore, Maryland. Real name Robert B. Folts. 

Sargenbach, David — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Buf-, 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, November 27, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, 
Virginia. 

Sarles, Benjamin D. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, 
September 4, 1861 ; missing in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia ; no further record. 

Sarles, Elisha B. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861; promoted corporal, July 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, 
December 17, 1863; wounded in action, May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Vir- 
ginia; transferred to Company E. September 17, 1864; to Twrenty-second 
Company, Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, no date ; mustered out, 
November 21, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Sauerwein, Augustus W. — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, January 27, 1864, 
at Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, Jan- 
uary 28, 1864; mustered out, June 3, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Sayres, Charles A. — Age, 29 j^ears. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, August 29, 1862 ; promoted 
corporal, January 1, 1863; sergeant, no date; transferred to Company C, 
September 17, 1864; killed in action, September 19, 1864. at Opequon, Vir- 
ginia. Commissioned, not mustered, second, lieutenant, September 30, 1864, 
with rank from September 5, 1864, vice William J. Kaiser, promoted. 

Scelly, Thomas — Private, Company B. Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; wounded, March 27, 1865; mustered out with detach- 
ment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Schaefer, Lorenz — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, September 26, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, September 
27, 1861 ; discharged for disability, November 5, 1862, at Fort Columbus 
Hospital, New York Harbor. 

ScuEUiENBERGER, JoHN — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, September 20, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, Sep- 
tember 21, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, March 26, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. ; color sergeant. 

Scheiffle, Michael — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, March 7, 1864; transferred 
to Company C, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, September 22, 1864, 
at iMshcr's Hill, Virginia; absent, wounded, in hospital at muster out of 
company ; no further record. 



New York Volunteers 265 

ScHENCK, Louis — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, August 26, 1861 ; deserted, 
August 31, 1861, from Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

ScHiMMERHORN, STEPHEN Van Rensselaer — Private, Company H, 
Thirty-third Infantry ; transferred to Company E, this regiment, October 
1, 1863; to Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged, June 16, 1865. 

ScHiNDLER, John — Private, Company , Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, February 
1, 1864. 

ScHLiEF, William — Age, 42 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, January 13, 1862; discharged, 
April 25, 1862, at Camp Winfield Scott, Virginia. 

Schmidt, Jacob — Age, 36 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged for hernia, December 18, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Schneider, Daniel — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 26, 
1862; promoted corporal, April 18, 1863; wounded in action, May 12, 1864, 
at Spottsylvania Court House, Virgina; July 12, 1864, at Fort Stevens, 
Washington, D. C, and September 19, 1864, at Opequon, Virginia; mus- 
tered out with detachment, at Washington, D. C. 

Schneider, Henry — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 
1861; promoted corporal, September 1, 1862; sergeant, February 1, 1863; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Scholz, Philip — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, September 17, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company B, September 
18, 1861, promoted sergeant, April 10, 1862; died, October 14, 1862, at 
Ebenezer Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Schoonoven, David — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Schram, Andrew — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company I, January 30, 1862; re-en- 
listed as a veteran, February 13, 1864; wounded in action, May 6, 1864, at 
the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Schuler, John — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, September 17, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 
18, 1861; died September 30, 1862, at Mill Creek Hospital, near Fortress 
Monroe, Virginia. 

Schultz, Frederick — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company F, September 2, 1862; wounded 
in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; died. May 21, 1864, at 
Carver Hospital, Washington, D. C. 



266 History of the 49th Regiment 

ScHULTZ, Frederick — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
j'cars, and mustered in as private, Company I, December 1, 1862; killed in 
action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. 

ScHvvECKENDicK, AuGUST — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, Septem- 
ber 2, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever, December 7, 1861, at Camp Griffin, 
Virginia. 

ScHWEiGERT, Charles — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 8, 1862, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, Sep- 
tember 10, 1862; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; mus- 
tered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

ScoTT, Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company I, July 6, 1864; transferred to Com- 
pany D, September 17, 1864; deserted on expiration of furlough, Decem- 
ber 12, 1864, at hospital. 

Scott, Edward — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company F, August 31, 1861; 
deserted in September, 1861, from Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Scott, Henry — Age, 19 years. Enlisted. August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, January 9, 1863, at hospital. Fort- 
ress Monroe, Virginia. 

Scott, William H. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, May 12, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Scott, William W. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, September 
5, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 11, 1862, at Newark, New 
Jersey. 

Scott, William W. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1862 at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
8, 1862; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Searson, Nutten — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company B, February 3, 1865 ; mus- 
tered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Secord, David — Age, 32 years. Enlisted at Castile, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company A, July 12, 1864; absent, wounded in 
action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. 

See, Silas M.— Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Harmony, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
died, November 18, 1862, in hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Seeley, Walter G. — Enrolled, but not mustered in, as first lieutenant. 
Company I ; commissioned, declined first lieutenant, January 17, 1862, with' 
rank from January 17, 1862, vice Erastus D. Holt, promoted. 

Seiffert, Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company I, November 22, 1862 ; trans- 



New York Volunteers 267 

ferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 

1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. 

Selkirk, George Holden — Age, 26 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company D, 
September 16, 1861; as adjutant, June 8, 1862; as captain. Company D, 
October 4, 1862; wounded in action, J\Iay 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; mus- 
tered in as major, April 15, 1865; as lieutenant colonel, April 16, 1865; 
mustered out with regiment, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 
Commissioned first lieutenant, January 20, 1862, with rank from Sep- 
tember 6, 1861, original; adjutant, June 10, 1862, with rank from May 31, 
1862, vice William Bullymore, deceased ; captain, December 24, 1862, with 
rank from October 4, 1862, vice William F. Wheeler, dismissed; major, 
October 31, 1864, with rank from October 28, 1864, vice Andrew W. Bra- 
zee, mustered out; lieutenant colonel. May 17, 1865, with rank from April 
1, 1865, vice Erastus D. Holt, promoted ; colonel, not mustered. May 17, 

1865, with rank from April 3, 1865, vice Erastus D. Holt, killed. 

Selle, Alexander — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, August 29, 1862 ; wounded 
in action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, 
at Washington, D. C. 

Severs, Aaron B. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Sep- 
tember 19, 1861; discharged for disability, November 21, 1862, at Philadel- 
phia, Pennsjdvania ; subsequent service in Company E, Second Mounted 
Rifles. 

Sevd, Alexander — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, September 
5, 1861 ; deserted, July 14, 1863, from Williamsport, Maryland. 

Seymour, Charles W. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861 ; died, July 31, 1862, at Harrison's Landing, Virginia. 

Shaffer, Caleb H. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 
10, 1861; discharged for disability, June 23, 1862. 

Shaffer, Nicholas — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 
1861 ; deserted, January 16, 1862, from Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Shaffer, James W. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Mina, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company I, July 5, 1864; wounded in 
action, September 19, 1864, at Opequon, Virginia; transferred to Company D, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Shaver, Charles — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company K, Septem- 
ber 18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; promoted cor- 
poral, April 1, 1864; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania 



268 History of the 49th Regiment 

Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Shaw, Daniel — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company A, August 24, 
1861; promoted sergeant, March 1, 1863; deserted, July 17, 1863, at Waynes- 
boro, Pennsylvania. 

Shaw, Henry A. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861 ; died of dropsy, July 10, 1862, at Mill Creek Hospital, Virginia. 

Shay, Thomas — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, October 3, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, no date ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; discharged, November 29, 1865, 
at Elmira, New York. 

Shebel, John G. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company D, September 9, 1861 ; re-en- 
listed as a veteran, December 25, 1863; captured, July 21, 1864; trans- 
ferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; paroled, December 23, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Sheldon, Harrison — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 
24, 1861; captured in action, October 14, 1863, at Bristoe Station, Virginia; 
no further record. 

Shelley, William M. — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company C, 
September 20, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; trans- 
ferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; promoted sergeant, February 
4, 1865 ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Shepperd, Elias — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; promoted corporal, January 10, 1862; returned to ranks, January 1, 
1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863; transferred to Company 
D, September 17, 1864; wounded, March 25, 1865; discharged for disability, 
June 19, 1865. 

Shepperd, Jeremiah — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; promoted corporal January 10, 1862; died of typhoid fever, June 9, 
1862, at hospital. New York City. 

Sherman, Albert V. — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; promoted corporal, 
no date; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, 
Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out 
with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Sherman, Charles W. — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in 
action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred 
to Company A, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Sherman, Delos — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 



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tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Sherman, James M. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded in action, May 6, 
1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company A, September 
17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Sherman, Levi W. — Age, 23 years. EnHsted, August 19, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; transferred to Company 
E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Sherman, Louis — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 9, 1864 ; no further 
record. 

Sherwood, Benjamin — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Sep- 
tember 4, 1861 ; discharged, December 8, 1862, at Belle Plain, Virginia. 

Sherwood, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, January 29, 1864; no further 
record. 

Shippee, Elijah H. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861; 
promoted corporal, no date; sergeant, March 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, 
December 16, 1863; killed in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court 
House, Virginia. 

Short, William — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, and mustered in 
as private. Company G, July 18, 1864; transferred to Company C, September 
17, 1864; wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; 
absent at muster out of company. 

Shum, Albert — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Mina, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability. May 12, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Shutts, Alonzo J.— Age, 32 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as wagoner. Company C, August 30, 
1861; discharged for disability, December 15, 1862, at hospital. New York 
City. 

Siebenhuener, Carl — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company B, August 22, 
1861 ; deserted, November 1, 1862. 

Sigwald, Charles — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
11, 1861; discharged for disability, December 2, 1862, at Fairfax Seminary 
Hospital, Virginia. 

SiLSBY, Jay — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Lockport, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company H. August 31, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, November 1, 1862; died of typhoid pneumonia, February 
3, 1863, at Windmill Point Hospital, Virginia. 



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SiLSBY, John D.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Corapany H, August 31, 1861 ; 
wounded in action, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland; discharged 
for his wounds, March 30, 1863. 

Simmons, Adelbert P. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, 
September 18, 1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, December 18; 
1863; died. May 8, 1916, at Jamestown, New York. 

Simon, Peter — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company I, March 6, 1862; re-enlisted as a 
veteran, March 13, 1864; wounded in action, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, 
Virginia; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, 
April 1, 1865 ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Simpson, Harry H. — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, September 
14, 1861 ; discharged for disability, March 10, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Simpson, Jacob — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Grand Island, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, July 8, 1864; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Simpson, James A. — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, July 29, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
promoted first sergeant, no date ; discharged for disabiHty, July 17, 1862, at 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Simpson, John — Age, 41 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, November 11, 1864; no further 
record. 

Simpson, John D. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; died of typhoid fever. May 28, 1862, at White House Landing, 
Virginia. 

Skillman, Theodore — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged, no date. 

Skinner, George — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned. May 25, 1864; no further 
record. 

Slack, William H.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 5, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, October 21, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Slater, Bradford — Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; promoted corporal, March 31, 1862; sergeant, November 1, 1862; 
first sergeant, March 1, 1863; wounded in action, May 12. 1864, at 
Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at 
Buffalo, New York. 

Slater, John — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Newfane, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 1, 1864; no further record. 



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Slayton, Reuben H. — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at 
Panama, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 
30, 1861 ; re-enlisted^ as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
no date; transfered to Veteran Reserve Corps, no date. 

Slingerland, Edward A.— Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 
28, 1861 ; promoted sergeant, August 28, 1861 ; first sergeant, January 1, 
1862; deserted, September 6, 1862, from hospital. 

Smaldridge, James H. — Private, Company A, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded. May 
6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company A, September 
17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Smith, Albert — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 24, 1861, at Wilson, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 1861 ; 
promoted sergeant, no date; died of disease, October 21, 1862, at Fairfax 
Seminary Hospital, Virginia. 

Smith, Alexander — Age, 37 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted, August 26, 1861, from Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Smith, Anthony — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, August 26, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, February 27, 1863 ; subsequent service in Company 
D, Second Mounted Rifles. 

Smith, Charles, 1st — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Rochester, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company A, July 8, 1864; wounded, 
October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; absent, sick, at muster out of 
company, June 27, 1865. 

Smith, Charles, 2nd — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Yates, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, July 12, 1864; killed in action, 
October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. 

Smith, Charles H. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, November 24, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, Decem- 
ber 7, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever, June 21, 1862, at Trent House Hospital, 
Virginia. 

Smith, Charles P. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, August 24, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; transferred to Company B, 
September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, January 1, 1865; sergeant, June 17, 
1865; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Smith, Eugene F. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1862, at Ellicott, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, August 25, 1862; 
transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; captured, January 9, 1865; 
paroled, June 3, 1865 ; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Smith, Henry — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, September 11, 
1861; deserted, September 19, 1861, from Park Barracks, New York City. 

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272 History of the 49th Regiment 

Smith, Henry E. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Poland,. 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861; 
died, September 12, 1862, in Ebenezer Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Smith, Hiram N. — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as first sergeant, Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861; promoted second lieutenant, in April, 1862; mustered in as 
first lieutenant, September 19, 1862 ; as captain, February 4, 1863 ; wounded 
in action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; discharged for disability, 
June 22, 1864. Commissioned second lieutenant. May 13, 1862, with rank 
from April 19, 1862, vice Elial Foote Carpenter, promoted ; first lieutenant, 
December 19, 1862, with rank from September 19, 1862, vice Elial Foote 
Carpenter, resigned ; captain, February 27, 1863, with rank from February 
4, 1863, vice Alonzo J. Marsh, resigned. 

Smith, James — Age, 38 years. Enlisted at BufTalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company E, April 5, 1862 ; captured and paroled, 
no dates; discharged for disability, April 13, 1863, at Washington, D. C. 

Smith, James H. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 19, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, unassigned, September 20, 
1862; no further record. 

Smith, John — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, December 18, 1863, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, December 19, 1863, 
wounded, August 21, 1864; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Smith, John F. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1862, at Ellicott, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, August 26, 1862 ; 
wounded in action. May 10, 1864, at Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to 
Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Smith, Joseph — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 5, 
1861 ; deserted, September 20, 1862, from Sharpsburg, Maryland. 

Smith, Julius — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; promoted corporal, April 25, 
1864; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Vir- 
ginia; promoted sergeant in August, 1864; transferred to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864 wounded in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Vir- 
ginia; promoted first sergeant, November 8, 1864; mustered in as second 
lieutenant, April 15, 1865; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. Commissioned second lieutenant. May 11, 1865, with 
rank from March 30, 1865, vice Augustus B. Meyer, promoted. 

Smith, Michael — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, August 31, 1861 ; 
discharged, December 31, 1863 ; subsequent service in First New York 
Independent Battery. 

Smith, Michael W.— Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, Sep- 



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tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washing- 
ton. D. C. 

Smith, Philander L. — Age, 37 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company A, August 
24, 1861 ; promoted first sergeant, no date ; discharged for pulmonary con- 
sumption, February 28, 1863. 

Smith, Robert — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company I, December 16, 1862; deserted, July 1, 
1864. 

Smith, Robert F. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861; promoted corporal in August, 1862; sergeant, March 1, 1863; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Smith, Sumner A. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Stock- 
ton, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, September 9, 
1861; promoted corporal, November 12, 1862; sergeant, January 1, 1863; 
wounded in action. May 18, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; 
mustered out October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Smith, Thomas — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Jamestown, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company K, November 18, 1861 ; dis- 
charged for disability, April 13, 1863, at hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Sneider, George — Age, years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 

years, and mustered in as private. Company I, March 6, 1862; discharged 
for disability, February 6, 1863, at Convalescent Camp. 

Sniffin, James E. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 25, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 
20, 1861 ; discharged, November 17, 1862, at White Plains, Virginia. 

Soles, Benjamin — Age, 43 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1862, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
30, 1862; discharged for disability, March 13, 1863, at Baltimore, Maryland. 

Sorber, Hiram. — Age 23 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1862, at Jamestown, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, September 10, 
1862; wounded in action. May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; trans- 
ferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; discharged for disability, April 14, 
1865. 

Soule, Ebenezer — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
11, 1861; discharged, October 14, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Southard, John B. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September S, 
1862; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 13, 1865, at White Hall Hospital, Bristol, Pennsylvania. 

SouTHWiCK, William H. S. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, 
at Busti, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 
30, 1861 ; absent, sick, at muster out of company. 

Spaulding, Jerome — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Septem- 



274 History of the 49th Regiment 

ber 13, 1861; wounded, April 5, 1862; discharged for his wounds, October 
11, 1862; subsequent service in Company H, Eighth Artillery. 

Spaulding, Thomas — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 10, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Septem- 
ber 13, 1861; wounded in action, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland; 
no further record. 

Speck, John — Age, 35 years. Enlisted July 9, 1864, at Warsaw, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company A, July 12, 1864; wounded, 
March 25, 1865; discharged, September 18, 1865, at Stanton Hospital, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

Spencer, William — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 2, 1861 ; 
deserted, September 17, 1862, from Antietam, Maryland. 

Sperbech, Reuden — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged, no date. 

Sperry, Nehemiah — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 29, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company G, September 
7, 1861; promoted sergeant, October 21, 1862; first sergeant, January 1, 1863; 
first lieutenant. May 12, 1864; wounded in action, July 12. 1864, at Fort 
Stevens, Washington, D. C. ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, 
New York. Commissioned first lieutenant, June 23, 1864, with rank from 
May 11, 1864, vice Fred C. Barger, discharged by order of the Secretary of 
War on account of disability from wounds received in action. 

Spillicy, Andrew — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 
10, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, June 6, 1865; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Sprague, Abel — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, February 1, 1862, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company D, no date; killed in 
action, June 30, 1862, at White Oak Swamp, Virginia. 

Springstead, Hiram P. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at 
Somerset, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Septem- 
ber 13, 1861 ; discharged for disability, March 10, 1862, at Camp Griffin, 
Virginia. 

Squires, Bela — Age, 29 years. Enlisted, December 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company F, December 11, 1861; 
died, January 18, 1863, at Sixth Corps Hospital, Hagerstown, Maryland. 

Stafford, Frank J. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 11, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861; re~cnlistcd as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded, July 12, 1864, 
at Fort Stevens, Wasliington, D. C. ; transferred to Company D, September 
17, 1864; mustered out. May 15, 1865, at Ehnira, New York. 

Stahler, Philip — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; died 
of typhoid fever, October 24, 1862, at Camden Street Hospital, Baltimore, 
Maryland. 



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Stamper, Frederick — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, September 5, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 
11, 1862; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out vvitii 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Stanton, VVillard — Private, Company C, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; died, August 21, 1864, at Le Camp Hospital, David's Island, 
New York Harbor. 

Steele, Wesley B. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Lockport, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company H, September 12, 1861 ; promoted 
sergeant, no date ; wounded in action. May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Vir- 
ginia; died of his wounds. May 16, 1863, at Potomac Creek Bridge, Virginia. 

Stein, Gottlob — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, March 25, 1863, at Turner's Lane Hospital, Phila- 
delphia, Pennsylvania. 

Steinmetz, Gabriel — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, September 21, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, Septem- 
ber 26, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; captured in action, 
June 4, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Virginia ; paroled, no date ; died, December 
14, 1864, at Annapolis, Maryland. 

Sterry, James H. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; returned to ranks, December 1, 1861 ; deserted, on expiration of 
furlough, March 14, 1863. 

Stevens, Edwin C. — Age, 17 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as drummer. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; discharged, January 15, 1862. 

Stevens, Phineas — Age, 47 years. Enrolled, August 5, 1861, at Westfield, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, April 29, 1862. Commissioned first lieuten- 
ant, January 20, 1862, with rank from September 5, 1861, original; subsequent 
service as captain. Company G, One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry. 

Stevens, William — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Oran, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company D, April 10, 1865 ; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Stevenson, Thomas — Age, 34 years. Enlisted at Lebanon, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, January 26, 1865 ; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Steward, Daniel— Private, Company , Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 

fered to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; discharged, April 30, 
1864. 

Steward, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Niagara, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company I, July 1, 1864; transferred to Com- 
pany D, September 17, 1864; wounded, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, 
Virginia ; absent, at muster out of company. 



276 History of the 49th Regiment 

Stewart, Robert — Age, 36 years. Enlisted at Concord, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, January 12, 1865; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Stewart, Charles J.— Age, 29 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1862, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 25, 
1862; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Stewart, Henry — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company B, February 26, 1865; mustered 
out with company, June 21, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Stewart, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company H, December 16, 1862; killed, June 4, 
1863, while on picket. 

Still, Alfred — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, December 9, 1862, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Stillson, Lyman D. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 16, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 14, 1862, at Annapolis, 
Maryland. 

Stoolfire, Irwin — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861; promoted corporal, June 1, 1862; mustered out, October 18, 1864, 
at Buffalo, New York. 

Stokes, John H. — Age, 17 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as musician, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Stone, Harmond E. — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 
10, 1861 ; discharged for disability, November 28, 1862, at Convalescent 
Camp. 

Stone, William H. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 13, 1S61, at 
Forestville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, Septem- 
ber 16, 1861 ; discharged for disability, February 14, 1863, at Convalescent 
Camp, near Alexandria, Virginia. 

Stonehouse, James — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Mina, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
missing in action, June, 1862, at Savage Station, Virginia; no further record. 

Story, Edmund — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 15, 1864; no further record. 

Strang, William — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chcstcr, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company C, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861; returned to ranks, April 20, 1862; deserted, June 1, 1862, from 
Cold Harbor, Virginia. 

Stratton, Joseph A. — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1862, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, September 
10, 1852; transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; discharged for 
disability, March 16, 1865. 



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Strayer, Levi — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Stringham, Adin C. — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 
1861 ; died of disease, October 3, 1863, at Annapolis, Maryland. 

Strub, Joseph — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company E, September 7, 1861; deserted, July 11, 
1863, from Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. 

Struight, Milton — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, September 1, 1862, at hospital, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

Stuber, Charles — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, January 21, 1864, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company B, January 27, 1864; 
mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Stuber, Peter — Age, 44 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as wagoner, Company B, August 28, 1861 ; discharged for 
disability, February 13, 1863, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Sturdevant, Charles — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant, Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861; returned to ranks, March 31, 1862; died of congestion of 
lungs, September 30, 1862, at Bakersville, Maryland. 

Sullivan, John — Age, 39 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; died 
of accidental wounds, October 2, 1862, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Sullivan, Maurice P. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1862, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
6, 1862; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; wounded in action, 
March 25, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia; mustered out, June 8, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

Swallow, John T. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted, August 4, 1862, from Harrison's Landing, Virginia. 

Sweeney, Edward — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as 
private, Company A, not stated ; recruit ; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Sweeney, James — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Utica, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, September 19, 1864; no further 
record. 

Sweeney, Patrick — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company K, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, August 
24, 1864; discharged for promotion to second lieutenant, One Hundred and 
Eighty-eighth Infantry, November 23, 1864. 

Sweet, Linford — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 



278 History of the 49th Regiment 

wounded in action, September 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland ; discharged 
for his wounds, December 12, 1862. 

Sweet, Orrin S. — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1S55, at 
Washington, D. C. 

SwiCK, Hugh M. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 8, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, August 31, 1861 ; 
mustered out with company, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

SwiCKER, George — Age, 42 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861 ; deserted, September 20, 1861, from Park Barracks, New York City. 

Taggart, Edgar E. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, no date. 

Tall, Richard — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, September 1, 1862, at Lockport, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, September 11, 
1862; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Tallady, Thomas E. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at 
Somerset, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, Sep- 
tember 16, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Tanner, Reuben B. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at 
Panama, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 
30, 1861 ; absent, sick, at muster out of company. 

Taylor, James — Age, 25 years. Enlisted at Galen, to serve three years. 
and mustered in as private. Company D, February 22, 1865 ; mustered out 
with company, June 21 , 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Taylor, Jerry — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 13, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
transferred to Company I, September 21, 1861 ; discharged for disability, 
October 23, 1862, at Newark, New Jersey. 

Taylor, Peter A. — Age, 25 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant. Company D, October 
21, 1861; promoted first lieutenant. May 31, 1862; discharged, September 6, 
1863; commissioned second lieutenant, January 20, 1862, with rank from 
September 20, 1861, original; first lieutenant, June 10, 1862, with rank from 
May 31, 1862, vice George Holden Selkirk, promoted. 

Taylor, Robert H. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 23, 1861. at Lock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company H. August 31, 
1861 ; captured in action, May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia ; paroled, 
no date; rc-cnlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; transferred to Com- 
pany E, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 



New York Volunteers 279 

Teller, John B. — Private, Company , Thirty-third Infantry, trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company D, First 
Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, no date ; mustered out, July 14, 1865, at 
Elmira, New York. 

Tenney, Newton F. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action. May 
6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; discharged, April 21, 1865. 

Terry, Seward Harmon — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at 
Clymer, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company G, August 
-30, 1861; promoted second lieutenant, December 26, 1861; first lieutenant, 
April 29, 1862; mustered in as captain, December 1, 1862; killed in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. Commissioned 
second lieutenant, February 12, 1862, with rank from December 23, 1861, vice 
Justin G. Thompson, resigned ; first lieutenant. May 19, 1862, with rank 
from April 29, 1862, vice Phineas Stevens, resigned; captain, November 11, 
1862, with rank from September 2, 1862, vice Jeremiah C. Drake, promoted. 

Tewey, Timothy — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
deserted, June 14, 1863, from Brook's Station, Virginia. 

Theis, John — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company I, March 6, 1862; re-enlisted as a 
veteran, March 13, 1864; killed in action, August 21, 1864, near Charlestown, 
West Virginia. 

Thielman, Leonard — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 5, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 
6, 1861; deserted, September 1, 1862, from Fairfax Court House, Virginia. 

Thoenne, Jacob — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, January 10, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Thomas, John — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 21, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 28, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; wounded in action. May 12, 1864, 
at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company B, Septem- 
ber 17, 1864 ; promoted corporal. May 19, 1865 ; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Thomas, Peter — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; transferred to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; promoted corporal, June 17, 1865; mustered out with com- 
pany, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Thompson, George — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
deserted, December 31, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Thompson, Hiram P.— Age, 21 years. EnHsted, August 19, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, August 31, 
1861; promoted corporal, November 1, 1862; sergeant, March 3, 1863; 



280 History of the 49th Regiment 

re-enlisted as a veteran, February 11, 1864; wounded in action. May 4, 1863, 
at Fredericksburg, Virginia; transferred to Company E, September 17, 1864; 
promoted regimental commissary sergeant, June 17, 1865; mustered out with 
regiment, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Thompson, Justin G. — Age, 24 years. Enrolled, August 16, 1861, at 
Stockton, to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant. Company 
G, August 30, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 23, 1861 ; com- 
missioned second lieutenant, September 30, 1861, with rank from September 
5, 1861, original. 

Thompson, Norman R. — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at 
Stockton, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company G, August 
30, 1861 ; promoted sergeant, December 26, 1861, wounded in action, Sep- 
tember 17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland; May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, 
Virginia; promoted regimental commissary sergeant, July 30, 1864; mustered 
out, October 18, 1864, at Buffalo, New York. 

Thompson, Wayne — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at Clymer, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 1861; 
discharged for disability. May 3, 1862, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Thompson, William H. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years, mustered in as private, Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; transferred to Navy in December, 1863. 

Thorn, Stephen C. — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, 
September 20, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; killed in 
action, June 5, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Virginia. 

Thornton, Andrew — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; died of fever, April 10, 1862, at Newport News, Virginia. 

TiCE, John — Age, 2)1 years. Enlisted, September 8, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, September 9, 1861 ; 
discharged, January 26, 1862. 

TicKNOR, Alroy a. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Ashville, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability. May 29, 1862, at Mount Pleasant Hospital, Wash- 
ington, D. C. ; subsequent service as captain, Company , One Hundred 

and Twelfth Infantry. 

Tiffany, Wallace — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, November 19, 1861, at 
Ellicott, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, November 
21, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863; captured in action. 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Company C, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; absent, prisoner of war, at muster out of company. 

TiLLiNGHAST, Henry D. — Age, 30 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at 
lUiffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as quartermaster, October 21, 
1861 ; died of disease in May, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. Commis- 
sioned first lieutenant and quartermaster, January 20, 1862, with rank from 
September 18, 1861, original. 




Monument Erected at the Bloody Angle by the Survivors of the 
49th Regiment, New York Volunteers 



New York Volunteers 281 

TiNDAL, William — Age, 33 years. Enlisted, August 31, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years; mustered in as sergeant. Company H, September 
6, 1861 ; promoted first sergeant, March 30, 1862 ; mustered in as second 
lieutenant, August 3, 1862; dismissed, February 24, 1864. Commissioned 
second lieutenant, October 11, 1862, with rank from August 3, 1862, vice 
William De Lancey Boughton, promoted. 

TiSDALE, George M.— Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; transferred to Company C, 
September 17, 1864; mustered out. May 15, 1865, at Elmira, New York. 

Todd, Hollis D.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as fifer. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
promoted fife major, September 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 
16, 1853; mustered out with regiment, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

ToLAND, John — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company F, January 29, 1862 ; promoted corporal, 
March 26, 1862; deserted. May 29, 1862, from New Bridge, Virginia. 

ToTTEN, Stephen — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as private, 
Company E, not stated ; deserted, no date. 

Trier, Henry — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 11, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company E, September 15, 
1862; transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Tritschler, Charles — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 10, 1851, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company B, September 
12, 1861 ; discharged for hypertrophy of the heart, March 12, 1863, at hospital, 
Baltimore, Maryland. 

Trommeter, Henry — Age, 39 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 27, 1861 ; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Troutman, Peter — Age, 41 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company I, March 12, 1862; discharged, 
November 20, 1862, at Fort McHenry, Maryland. 

Truax, Charles L. — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863 ; wounded, May 5, 1864, 
at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company A, September 17, 1864; 
discharged for disability, April 28, 1865. 

Truax, Joseph H. — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry, trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, September 17, 1864; discharged for 
disability, April 28, 1865. 

Tucker, Albert D.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as sergeant, Company A, August 
24, 1861 ; died of disease, November 13, 1862, at Fairfax Seminary Hospital. 
Virginia. 

Tucker, Darius — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, September 14, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company A, September 
16, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 19, 1862, at Convalescent Camp, 
Virginia. 



282 History of the 49th Regiment 

Turk, Rice — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Forestville, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company I, September 28, 1861 ; 
died of typhoid fever, June 19, 1862, at Trent House Hospital, Virginia. 

Turner, Henry — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Portchester, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company C, September 20, 
1861 ; deserted from hospital, Yorktown, Virginia, no date. 

Turner, James — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Kiantone, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company A, December 21, 1863; wounded 
in action, April 2, 1865, near Petersburg, Virginia ; discharged for disability, 
June 3, 1865, at Stanton Hospital, Washington, D. C. 

Turner, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, December 4, 1862, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, December 24, 1862 ; 
transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Turner, John — Age, 28 years. Enlisted at Ellicott, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, Company A, February 6, 1864; captured in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia ; died, September 6, 
1864, while a prisoner of war, at Andersonville, Georgia. Grave No. 7670. 

Turner, Myron — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted and promoted corporal, December 16, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 6, 1854, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; transferred to Twenty-second 
Company, Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, March 21, 1865, from 
which mustered out, November 21, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Turner, Orton — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, August 9, 1862, at hospital, Fortress 
Monroe, Virginia. 

Tosh, Alex.\nder — Age, 26 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, September 15, 1864; captured, 
March 27, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia; paroled, no date; mustered out 
with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Tompkins, James H. — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company C, 
September 4, 1861 ; died, August 6, 1863, at North Castle, New York. 

Toumey, Dennis — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 5. 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, September 6, 
1861 ; promoted corporal, no date ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 
1863; returned to ranks, no date; transferred to Company B, September 17, 
1864; discharged, May 24, 1865. 

Tyler, Mortimer LeVerne — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at 
Clymer, to serve three years ; mustered in as first sergeant. Company G, 
August 30, 1861; as second lieutenant, September 2, 1862; killed in action, 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; prior service in 
Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers. Commissioned second lieutenant, 
December 17, 1862, with rank from September 2, 1862, vice Fred C. Barger, 
promoted. 

Tyler, William H. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, September 
4, 1861; present, July 3, 1862; discharged, February 10, 1863. 



New York Volunteers 283 

Umberhunn, Richard — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 
22, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; transferred to Com- 
pany C, September 17, 1864; promoted corporal, November 23, 1864; sergeant, 
June 17, 1865 ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, 
D. C. 

Uttley, Thomas — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; discharged for disability, April 8, 
1865, at hospital. 

Vail, David W. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at Somer- 
set, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
13, 1861; promoted corporal, November 1, 1862; returned to ranks, no date; 
promoted corporal, March 3, 1863 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at 
Buffalo, New York. 

Valentine, Henry C. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861; promoted sergeant, March 31, 1862; sergeant-major, Novem- 
ber 1, 1862; mustered in as first lieutenant. Company I, March 1, 1863; 
killed in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. Commissioned 
first lieutenant, February 27, 1863, with rank from January 21, 1863, vice 
William S. Hudson, Junior, dismissed. 

Van Baalin, Henry — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, September 
5, 1861 ; killed in action. May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Van Brocklin, Edwin R. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 15, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 
28, 1861 ; discharged for disability, January 28, 1862, at Camp Griffin, 
Virginia. 

Van Brunt, Albert — Age, 19 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, November 5, 1862 ; trans- 
ferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; absent, wounded, at muster out 
of company. 

Vanderhorst, Henry — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; captured in action. 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; paroled, no date; 
died of disease, December 19, 1864, at Camp Parole Hospital, Annapolis, 
Maryland. 

Vanderpool, James — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
fered to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; transferred to Company 
A, September 17, 1864; wounded, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; 
mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Van Gelder, Alfred — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
fered to Company D, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company B, Sep- 
tember 17, 1854; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 



284 History of the 49th Regiment 

Van Gelder, Henry M. — Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company D, this regiment, February 4, 1863; captured and 
paroled, no dates; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; dis- 
charged, June 16, 1865. 

Van Volkenburg, Timothy — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, 
at Fredonia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, 
August 24, 1861 ; discharged for disability, December 8, 1862, at Camp Belle 
Plain, Virginia. 

Vaughn, Patrick J. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, September 
3, 1861 ; transferred to western gunboat, " Mound City," no date. 

Vedder, Gustavus — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 27, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; transferred to Company I, September 21, 1861 ; re-enlistcd as a veteran, 
December 16, 1863 ; wounded in action. May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Vir- 
ginia; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Vedder, William S. — Private, Company B, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Veith, Joseph — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, September 24, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 
26, 1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New 
York. 

ViCKERY, Edgar R. — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, September 3, 1861, at For- 
estville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 
6, 1861 ; discharged for disability, February 19, 1863, at Baltimore, Maryland. 

Vigala, Bartholomew — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, March 8, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, March 10, 
1862; wounded in action, July 2, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; trans- 
ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, September 16, 1863. 

Vilbert, Anthony — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as drummer. Company F, August 22. 
1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1853; transferred to Company 
C, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at 
Washington, D. C. 

ViLMiER, Michael — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as 
private, Company D, not stated; mustered out with company, June 21, 1865. 
at Washington, D. C. 

ViSKNisKKi, Felix — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 14, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company A, August 
24, 1861 ; discharged for disability, June 1, 1863, at hospital, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

Voltze, George— Private, Company H, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action. May 12. 
1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; died, May 18, 1864, in hospital 
at Fredericksburg, Virginia. 



New York Volunteers 285 

Von Gayl, Frederic — Age, 36 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as first lieutenant, Company B, Au!?ust 28, 
1861 ; died, June 12, 1862, in hospital at White House Landing, Virginia. 
Commissioned first lieutenant, January 20, 1862, with rank from September 
5, 1861, original. 

VooRHEES, Weizner — Private, Company H. Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; killed in action. May 6, 
1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

VosBURG, Jacob — Private, Company A, First Lincoln Cavalry ; trans- 
ferred to this regiment, November 12, 1864, for promotion to second 
lieutenant; no further record. Commissioned, not mustered, second lieuten- 
ant, November 12, 1864, with rank from November 12, 1864, vice Charles A. 
Sayres, killed in action. 

Wadding, Philip — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company I, December 1, 1862; killed in 
action, May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Wagner, John — Age, 32 years. Enlisted, September 17, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, September 18, 
1861 ; died, February 15, 1863, in hospital at Antietam, Maryland. 

Wagner, Nicholas L — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 
1861; captured in action, September 17, 1863, near Culpepper, Virginia; 
paroled, no date; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, 
New York. 

Wahlen, Jacob — Age, 18 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company I, March 6, 1862; re-enlisted 
as a veteran, March 13, 1864; transferred to Company D, September 17, 
1864; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Wain, Charles — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, August 16, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
discharged, no date. 

Wait, Rufus R.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 17, 1861, at Lockport, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company H, September 5, 
1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 26, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Com- 
pany E, September 17, 1864; discharged for disability, April 7, 1865. 

Waldron, James A.— Age, 23 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, August 28, 1861 ; sergeant, January 1, 1862; first sergeant, 
no date; mustered in as second lieutenant, October 4, 1862; discharged, 
August 10, 1863. Commissioned second lieutenant, February 27, 1863, with 
rank from October 4, 1862, vice William S. Bull, promoted. 

Walker, Elias — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, June 29, 1864; no further record. 

Walker, George T.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 



286 History of the 49th Regiment 

1861; discharged for disability, September 11, 1863, at hospital, Washington, 
D. C. 

Walls, James — Sergeant, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; wounded in action, 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company A, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; promoted sergeant-major, September 18, 1864; mustered 
out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Walsh, Willl\m W.— Age, 37 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 31, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, December 14, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Walters, John — Age, 23 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, September 10, 
1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, July 1, 1863. 

Walton, Edward W. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 22, 
1861 ; died of pneumonia, February 7, 1862, in Regimental Hospital at Camp 
Griffin, Virginia. 

Ward, Frank — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
wounded in action, April 5, 1862, at Yorktown, Virginia; transferred to 
Sixteenth Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps, no date. 

Ward, Warren A. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Ellicott, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company K, December 5, 1863 ; killed in 
action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Wark, John F. — Corporal, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; trans- 
ferred to Company A, this regiment, October 1, 1863; promoted sergeant, 
no date ; killed in action, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. 

Warner, Christian H. — Age, 35 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company D, August 
28, 1861 ; transferred to western gunboat " Mound City," Mississippi River, 
in 1862 or 1863. 

Warner, Ends — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fredonia, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
captured in skirmish, September 24, 1863, at Stonehouso Mountain, Virginia ; 
no further record. 

Warner, Niles T. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, November 24, 1862, at hospital, Newark, 
New Jersey. 

Warren, Harlan P. — Private, Company K, Thirty-third Infantry; 
appointed musician, no date; transferred to Company D, September 17, 
1864; mustered out with detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Washburn, Albert — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; promoted first sergeant, no date ; mustered in as second lieutenant, 
March 1, 1863; dismissed, July 24, 1864. Commissioned second lieutenant, 
February 27, 1863, with rank from February 4, 1863, vice Reuben M. Preston, 
promoted. 



New York Volunteers 287 

Waterman, Hiram — Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 14, 1863 ; wounded in action, 
May 10, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; promoted sergeant, September 20, 1864; killed in action, 
October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. 

Watkins, Nicholas — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company A, January 30, 1865; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Watson, John — Age, 36 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
re-enlisted as a veteran, December 25, 1863 ; wounded in action, May 6, 1864, 
at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company B, September 17, 1864; 
wounded, April 2, 1865, at Petersburg, Virginia ; absent at muster out of 
Company. 

Weaver, Henry H. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, February 10, 1863, from hospital at 
Annapolis, Maryland. 

Weed, John E. — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as sergeant. Company C, Septem- 
ber 4, 1861; returned to ranks, July 1, 1863; re-enlisted as a veteran, 
December 16, 1863; promoted sergeant, February 21, 1864; transferred to 
Company E, September 17, 1864; absent, sick in hospital, at muster out of 
company. 

Weiler, Joseph — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company F, January 30, 1862; discharged for 
disability, July 14, 1862, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Weinberg, Isaac — Age, 27 years. Enlisted, August 9, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company F, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, October 19, 1862, at Newport News, Virginia. 

Weingertner, Michael — Age, 44 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1863, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, December 
9, 1863; wounded in action, May 8, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; 
mustered out for disability. May 22, 1865, at Tilton Hospital, Wilmington, 
Delaware. 

Weirner, Augustus — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 
1861; promoted corporal, May 13, 1863; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at 
Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Weiss, Julius A.— Age, 20 years. Enrolled at White Oak Church, Vir- 
ginia, and mustered in as second lieutenant. Company C, December 11, 1862; 
discharged, October 18, 1863, for promotion to captain in Seventh United 
States Colored Troops; prior service, sergeant. Company C, Twenty-first 
Infantry. Commissioned second lieutenant, December 13, 1862, with rank 
from December 11, 1862, vice Henry W. Church, dismissed. 

Weissenberger, George — Age, 34 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 
22, 1861 ; discharged for disability, March 10, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

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2S& History of the 49th Regiment 

Weissmantel, John Adam — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private, Company B, August 28, 1861 ; killed 
in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Welch, Redmond — Age, 38 years. Enlisted, August 22, 1861, at Fredonia, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, June 25, 1862, at Fortress Monroe, Virginia. 

Wellington, Levi — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Poland,, 
to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861; 
died, March 15, 1862, in hospital at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Wellington, Warren C. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at 
Jamestown, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company K, Sep- 
tember 18, 1861 ; died of disease, August 17, 1862, near Chickahominy River, 
Virginia. 

Wells, William H.— Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as musician, Company D, August 28, 
1861 ; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

West, William H. — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, September 8, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 
9, 1862 ; deserted, July 17, 1863, from Boonsboro, ^Maryland. 

Wheeler, Benjamin E. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 5, 1861, at 
Clymer, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 
30, 1861 ; died. March 3, 1862, in hospital at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Wheeler, Charles E. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company G, January 18, 1864 ; transfered 
to Company A, September 17, 1864; mustered out with company. June 27, 
1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Wheeler, William F. — Age, 26 years. Enrolled, September 6, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as captain, Company D, October 
21, 1861 ; dismissed, October 4, 1862, for absence without leave. Commis- 
sioned captain, January 20, 1862, with rank from September 6, 1861, original. 

Whitcomb, Eugene — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, March 10, 1862, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years; mustered in as wagoner, Company E, March 13, 1863; 
transferred to Company C, September 17, 1864; discharged, March 10, 1865. 

White, Benajah B. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, September 
16, 1861; promoted corporal, January 12, 1862; captured in action. May 4, 
1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; promoted sergeant, November 18, 1863; 
paroled, no date; mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buffalo, 
New York. 

White, James — Age, 29 years. Enlisted at Newfane, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned, October 1, 1864; no further record. 

White, John C— Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1861. at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company D, August 22, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, November 1. 1861; first sergeant. May 8, 1862; mustered 
in as second lieutenant, November 28, 1862; as first lieutenant, September 
7, 1863; captain. May 10, 1864; captured in action, May 12, 1864. at Spottsyl- 
vania Court House, Virginia; transferred to Company B on consolidation, 
September 17, 1864; absent, prisoner of war, at muster out of company; 



New York Volunteers 289 

veteran ; no further record. Commissioned second lieutenant, February 27, 
1863, with rank from November 27, 1862, vice Elisha W. Hunt, resigned; 
first lieutenant, December 19, 1863, with rank from September 7, 1863, vice 
Peter A. Taylor, discharged. 

White, Joseph — Private, Company F, Thirty-third Infantry; transferred 
to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; transferred to Veteran 
Reserve Corps, April, 15, 1864. 

WiDMER, Samuel — Age, 30 years. Enlisted, August 2, 1861, at Buflfalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, August 22, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, May 11, 1862, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

WiEDER, Joseph I. — Private, Company C, Thirty-third Infantry ; trans- 
fered to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; died in Insane Hospital 
at Washington, D. C., no date. 

Wies, Louis — Age, 41 years. Enlisted, September 15, 1862, at Buflfalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company B, September 16, 
1862; transferred to Company F, Sixth Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, 
September 27, 1863, from which mustered out, July 10, 1865, at Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

Wiggins, William Theodore — Age, 26 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, 
at New York City, to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant, 
Company C, September 4, 1861; as first lieutenant, January 6, 1862; as 
captain, June 16, 1863 ; killed in action. May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, 
Virginia. Commissioned second lieutenant, January 20, 1862, with rank from 
September 4, 1861, original; first lieutenant, February 24, 1862, with rank 
from January 24, 1862, vice Gilbert J. Greene, resigned ; captain, June 6, 1863, 
with rank from December 10, 1862, vice William Ellis, promoted. 

WiGHTMAN, Ira B. — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Fre- 
donia, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company A, August 24, 
1861 ; transferred to Company E, Twentieth Regiment, Veteran Reserve 
Corps, October 17, 1863, from which mustered out, November 21, 1865. 

Wilbur, Solomon — Age, 20 years. Enlisted, August 20, 1861, at Panama, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company G, August 30, 1861 ; 
discharged for disability, March 8, 1863, at camp near White Oak Church, 
Virginia. 

Wilcox, Alamando — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Buflfalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company F, September 18, 1861 ; deserted. 
May 29, 1862, from New Bridge, Virginia. 

Wilcox, Alfred E.— Age, 26 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Company K, September 
18, 1861; wounded in action, September 17, 1862 ,at Antietam, Maryland; 
mustered out, October 18, 1864, at Fort Porter, Buflfalo, New York. 

Wilcox, Alonzo D.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted. August 22, 1861, at Lock- 
port, to serve three years: mustered in as private. Company H, September 
16, 1861 ; died of typhoid fever, February 19, 1862, at Camp Griflfin, Virginia. 

Wilcox, Daniel — Age, 24 years. Enlisted. August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; re-enlisted as a veteran. December 14, 1863 ; killed in action, May 
12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. 



290 History of the 49th Regiment 

Wilcox, George — Age, 40 years. Enlisted, September 4, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years, and mustered in as private. Company D, September 5, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, January 28, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Wilcox, George — Age, 30 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private. Company D, September 6, 1861 ; discharged for 
disability, November 4, 1862, at Washington, D. C. 

Wilcox, Seymour H. — Age, 36 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 
1861 ; died, no date, at Buffalo, New York . 

Wilcox, Van — Age, 31 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at Jamestow^n, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 18, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, November 2, 1862, at hospital, Washington, 
D. C. 

Wilder, Francis M. — Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, Company E, August 29, 1862; promoted 
corporal, no date; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, October 4, 1863. 

Wilder, Joseph D. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Stock- 
ton, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 ; discharged for disability, December 27, 1862. 

Wilder, Walter D. — Age, 24 years. Enlisted, August 12, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
promoted corporal, August 28, 1861 ; sergeant, March 30, 1863 ; first sergeant, 
no date ; mustered in as first lieutenant, December 5, 1863 ; wounded in 
action, May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia ; mustered in as captain, 
July 12, 1864; transferred to Company C on consolidation, September 17, 
1864 ; mustered out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 
Commissioned first lieutenant, November 13, 1863, with rank from May 14, 

1863, vice George W. Gilman, discharged ; captain, August 12, 1864, with 
rank from May 18, 1864, vice Reuben E. Heacock, killed in action. 

WiLKEN, Christopher — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 7, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company B, August 22, 
1861 ■ re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863 ; killed in action, ISIay 6, 

1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Williams, Charles — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Clarence, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company E, February 1, 1865; mustered 
out with company, June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Williams, Charles — Age, 27 years. Enlisted at Lancaster, to serve 
three years, and mustered in as private. Company E, February 25, 1865 ; 
absent, in arest, April 30, 1865 ; no further record. 

Williams, Edwin C. — Age, 25 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at 
Poland, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861 : discharged for disability, February 3, 1862, at Camp Griffin, Virginia. 

Williams, John — Age, 22 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company F, Septemlier 12, 1861 ; deserted, 
September 12, 1861, at Buffalo, New York. 

Williams, Leroy D. — Age, 43 years. Enlisted. September 11, 1861, at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company F, September 
13, 1861 ; discharged in July, 1862, at Annapolis Junction. Maryland. 



New York Volunteers 291 

Williams, Levi A.— Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, September 
12, 1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, February 15, 1864. 

Williams, Robert J.— Age, 20 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private, unassigned, July 7, 1864; no further 
record. 

Williams, Sherman — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at West- 
field, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company G, August 30, 
1861; promoted corporal, June 23, 1862; transferred to Veteran Reserve 
Corps, April 10, 1864, from which mustered out, September 8, 1864, at New 
York City. 

Williams, Theodore C. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 21, 1861, at 
Lockport, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company H, Septem- 
ber 24, 1861; promoted sergeant, no date; died, July 8, 1862, at Portsmouth 
Grove Hospital, Rhode Island. 

Williams, William H. — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 2, 1861, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861; re-enlisted as a veteran, December 16, 1863; wounded in 
action, May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania Court House. Virginia ; died, June 8, 
1864, in hospital, at Alexandria, Virginia. 

Wilson, Charles R. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 6, 1862. at 
Buffalo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, Septem- 
ber 7, 1862; promoted corporal, August 15, 1863; wounded in action. May 5, 
1864, and died of his wounds. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Wilson, Daniel L. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
18, 1861 ; discharged for disability, October 13, 1862, at hospital, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

Wilson, Robert — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 28, 1861, at Port- 
chester, to serve three years ; mustered in as corporal. Company C, Septem- 
ber 20, 1861 ; killed in action. May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia. 

Wilson, William — Age 24 years. Enlisted, September 7, 1862, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, September 17, 
1862; transferred to Company D, September 17, 1864; mustered out with 
detachment, June 16, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

Winegardner, James — Age, 19 years. Enlisted, August 19, 1861, at Buf- 
falo, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, August 28, 
1861 ; discharged, for disability, April 23, 1862, at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. 

WiNNEY, Henry — Private. Company E. Thirty-third Infantry; captured. 
May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; paroled. May 15, 1863, at City 
Paint, Virginia; transferred to Company D. this regiment, October 1, 1863; 
to Company B, September 17, 1864; discharged. June 16, 1865. 

Winters, Willison — Age, 19 years. Enlisted. August 21, 1861, at Forest- 
ville, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company I, August 28, 
1861 ; deserted, September 19, 1862, from Antietam, Maryland. 

Witherell, Seymour B.— Private, Company E, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Veteran 
Reserve Corps, September 1, 1863. 



292 History of the 49th Regiment 

Witter, William Owen — Private, Company D, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company I, this regiment, October 1, 1863; captured in action, 
May 5, 1864, at the Wilderness, Virginia; transferred to Company D, Sep- 
tember 17, 1864; died in prison, December 5, 1864, at Andersonville, Georgia. 
Grave No. 12,227. 

WoNDERLiN, Franklin — Private, Company C, Thirty-third Infantry; 
transferred to Company G, this regiment, October 1, 1863; to Company A,. 
September 17, 1864; wounded, October 19, 1864, at Cedar Creek, Virginia; 
discharged for disability, January 3, 1865. 

Wood, Edward M. — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, September 9, 1861, at 
Medina, to serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company H, September 
13, 1861; wounded and captured, May 4, 1863, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; 
paroled in November, 1863; promoted corporal, April 28, 1864; transferred 
to Company E, September 17, 1864; discliarged, June 23, 1865. 

Wood, George — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, August 6, 1861, at Buffalo, to 
serve three years ; mustered in as private, Company E, August 28, 1861 ; 
died of disease, November 10, 1863, at Hagerstown, Maryland. 

Woodard, Samuel J. — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 26, 1861, at James- 
town to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company K, September 
17, 1862, at Antietam, Maryland ; discharged for his wounds, no date. 

WooLSEY, Elliott H. — Private, Company , Thirty-third Infantry ; 

transferred to this regiment, unassigned, October 1, 1863; no further record. 

Wright, Benjamin — Age, 22 years. Enlisted, September 2, 18'51, at 
Portchester, to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company C, Sep- 
tember 20, 1861 ; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, August 1. 18o3. 

Wright, William — Age, 21 years. Enlisted, January 24, 1864, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as private. Company E, January 25, 1864 ; 
transferred to Company C, September 17. 1864; mustered out with company, 
June 27, 1865, at Washington, D. C. 

WuERZ, William — Age, 28 years. Enrolled, August 1, 1861, at Buffalo, 
to serve three years ; mustered in as second lieutenant, Company B, October 
21, 1861 ; discharged for disability, March 30, 1862. Commissioned second 
lieutenant, January 20, 1862, with rank from September 20, 1861, original. 

York, William — Age, 35 years. Enlisted at Fredonia, to serve three 
years, and mustered in as private. Company A, September 3, 1861 ; deserted, 
September 11, 1861, from Fort Porter, Buffalo, New York. 

Young, Jame.s — Age, date, place of enlistment and muster in as private. 
Company D, not stated ; mustered out with company, June 27. 1865, at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

ZiMMER, John — Age, 21 years. Enlisted at Buffalo, to serve three years, 
and mustered in as private, unassigned. May 25, 1864; no further record. 

Zimmerman, William — Age, 18 years. Enlisted, February 18, 1862. at 
Buffalo, to serve three years; mustered in as private. Company I, February 
19, 1862; discharged for disability, December 27, 1862, at Baltimore, 
Maryland. 



INDEX 



(The numbers refer to pages.) 



" A Bad Half Hour with General 
' Baldy Smith;' article by Sergeant 
Alexander H. McKelvy, 143-145. 

Abraham's Creek, 70. 

Acheon, Charles, 169. 

Ackerly, Felix, 169. 

Acquia Creek, base of supplies, 25; 
200, 235, 239. 

Adams, Jacob, 169. 

Adams, James, 1. 

Adams, John, 169. 

Adams, Samuel, wounded, 33 ; 169. 

Aflfolter, Samuel, 169. 

Akins, John, 169. 

Albany, 28, 90, 155, 176, 177, 191. 

Alberger, Franklin A., 1. 

Alberger, William Clendenin, field 
and staff officers, 3 ; wounded, 22 ; 
169, 224. 

Alexander, 203. 

Alexander, Quartermaster, 142, 143. 

Alexandria, place of embarkation for 
Peninsula campaign, 7 ; arrival of 
Army of Potomac, August 23, 1862, 
16; 173, 178, 179, 182, 196, 197, 198, 
204, 214, 222, 225, 227, 229, 235, 
240, 242, 249, 250, 253, 276, 277, 289. 
291. 

Allegany, 206, 262. 

Allen, Andrew J., 169. 

Allen, George M., 169. 

Allen, James, wounded, 46; 169, 170. 

Allen, Joseph. 170. 

Allen, Mrs. Orlando, 155. 

Allman, John, 170. 

"All Quiet Along the Potomac," 
poem by Etheldina Eliot Beers, 
131, 132. 

Alteman, John Peter, 170. 

Altum, William, 170. 

Alverson, Nathan F., 170. 

Amidon, John N., 170. 

" An Amusing Incident in Camp 
Life," article by Sherman Williams, 
119. 

Anderson, Adolph, 170. 

Anderson, John, 170. 

Andersonville Prison, 47, 202, 208, 
210, 227, 229, 282, 292. 

Andrews, James M., 170. 

Andrews, Robert, 170. 



Anglicker, Bernard, 170. 

Annapolis, 118, 172, 174, 192, 197, 201, 
217, 253, 255, 275, 276, 277, 283, 287. 

Annapolis Junction, hospitals at, 153; 
179, 183, 258, 290. 

Annis, Alonzo, 170. 

" A Notable Artillery Shot," article 
by Sergeant Alexander H. Mc- 
Kelvy, 139, 140. 

Antietam, record in Fox's " Three 
Hundred Fighting Regiments," 5 ; 
fording creek, 20, 36; after battle 
at Couch's Division was assigned 
to Sixth Corps, 23 ; 37, 46, 145, 155 
175, 198, 200, 209, 210, 228, 243, 270, 
274, 278, 280, 285, 289, 291. 

Antietam Hospital, 219, 228. 234. 

Antietam National Cemetery, 89, 90. 

" A Personal Interview with Presi- 
dent Lincoln," article by Major 
Fred C. Barger, 135, 136. 

Aplin, Horace W., 170. 

Appomattox Court House, 6, 86, 156. 

Apthorp, Thomas, wounded, 53; 170. 

Arbor, John, wounded, 53; 170. 

Arkison, Thomas, 170. 

Arlington Cemetery, 88. 

Armenslo, John, l70. 

Armory Square Hospital, 27, 172. 

Armstrong, George, 170. 

Armstrong, William, wounded, 86; 
170. 

.A.rmy of the Potomac, 49th Regiment 
participated in all the battles of, 6 ; 
reviewed by President Lincoln by 
moonlight, 15; withdrawn from 
Peninsula, 15; turned over piece- 
meal to General Pope, 16 ; under 
command of General McClellan, 
17; hot on trail of Confederates, 
18; under command of General 
Burnside, 23 ; divided into three 
grand divisions, 25 : under com- 
mand of General Hooker, 28; re- 
viewed b}' President Lincoln, in 
April, 1863, 29; under command of 
General Meade, 34; in line of bat- 
tle to prevent Lee from crossing 
the Potomac river after Gettysburg, 
36 ; much marching and counter- 
marching, 37 ; general movement 



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of, 38; Smith's Division of, 41; 
under command of General Grant, 
42; heavy charges by left and right 
wings, 60 ; lay upon arid plain at 
Cold Harbor for ten days, 61 ; 
failed to take Petersburg by sur- 
prise, 62 ; Sixth Corps ordered to 
reinforce, 66 ; new era in history 
of Sixth Corps, 67 ; Sixth Corps 
became part of again, 85 ; being re- 
organized by General McClellan, 
95 ; moved to the Rappahannock 
river, 104; 49th Regiment partici- 
pated in all principal engagements, 
125 ; withdrawn to north bank of 
Rappahannock river, 139; most 
graceful horseman in, 141. 

Army of the Tennessee, won many 
decisive victories under General 
Thomas, 141. 

Arnold, Lucius, 170. 

" Arrowsmith, T. V.", transport car- 
rying soldiers from Alexandria to 
Fortress Monroe, 7. 

Ashville, 171, 280. 

" A Soldier's Grave," poem by John 
D. Wells, 102. 

Aspell, James, 171. 

Atherly, Rollin D., 171. 

" A Tribute to a Loyal Virginian," 
article by Sherman Williams, 140, 
141. 

" A Typical Foraging Expedition," 
article by Sergeant Alexander H. 
McKelvy, 133, 134. 

Austin, William, 171. 

Ayres' Battery, 8, 13, 214. 

Babcock, Amos, 171. 

Bacon, Edwin, captured, 47; 88, 172. 

Bacon, Leander, 172. 

Bagley, Alonzo, 172. 

Bagnall, Samuel A., 172. 

Bailey, Henry, 172. 

Bailey, Nelson, 172. 

Bailey, Willard W., 172. 

Bailey's Cross Roads, 235. 

Baker, Charles, 172. 

Baker, Frank, captured, 38; 172. 

Baker, James A., wounded and died, 
27; 89, 172. 

Baker, Jerome P., 172. 

Baker, John G., 88, 173. 

Bakers ville, 176. 188, 195. 224, 247, 
277. 

Baldwin, Ebenezer, 173. 

Ball. Samuel, 173. , 

I'.aUard, John. 173. 

Ballon. Schuyler S., invocation at 
dedication of Gettysburg Monu- 
ment, 88; 173. 



Ballon, Stephen D., 173. 

Baltimore, 49th Regiment passed 
thru, 7 ; protected by Sixth 
Corps, 34; 188, 196, 217, 221, 222, 
232, 235, 248, 264, 273, 274, 281, 284, 
292. 

Banker, John, wounded, 46; 173. 

Banker, William, 173. 

Banks' Ford, 30. 

Baquet, Nicholas, killed, Z7 ; 89, 173. 

Barbould, Barton C, 173. 

Barbell, George, 173. 

Barber, Frank W., 173. _ 

Barbour, George W., 173. 

Bardman, John, 174. 

Barger, Fred C, order to support 
Hancock's Brigade was hailed with 
joy, 10; flavor of whisky utterly 
ruined, 11; prostrate men reduced 
themselves to thin proportions, 21 ; 
commanded picket, 22 ; wounded, 
27 ; "A Personal Interview with 
President Lincoln," 135; 174, 274, 
282. 

Barlow, Henry, 174. 

Barnard, Selah E., 174. 

Barnes, James. 174. 

Barnes, Joseph, 174. 

Barnes, William H., 174. 

Barnestown. 34. 

Barnesville, 18. 

Barney, Thomas, captured, 53; 174. 

Barrav, Garret, 174. 

Bartell. John R.. 174. 

Bartholomew. Harley. 174. 

Bartholomew. Perry. 175. 

Bartlett, Albert A., wounded, 22; 175. 

Barton, Amasa F., 175. 

Barton, David, 175. 

Barton, Ephraim, 175. 

Barton, James. 93. 

Barton, Jesse, 175. 

I'atcman, Junior, Michael, 175. 

Battle (iround National Cemetery, 
89. 

" Battles and Leaders of the Civil 
War," article on Cold Harbor by 
General McMahon, 62; discussion 
of campaign by General Early. 63. 

Baylis, Jefferson, 175. 

Baylis, John R.,^175. 

Beach. Cyrus. 175. 

Beach. Henry N.. 175. 

Beach. Loomis J.. 175. 

Beach, Walter A., 176. 

Beach, William E., wounded, 17 ; 176. 

l^ealton Station. 214. 

i'ear. Samuel, 176. 

Ikatson. Junior. Robert, killed, 69; 
89, 176. 

Beattie, George, 176. 



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295 



Beauregard, General, 13. 

Beaver Dam Creek, 11, 59. 

Backer, Alexander, 176. 

Bedell, Charles P., 176. 

Beedle, John, 176. 

Beehler, Frank, 176. 

Beers, Etheldina Eliot, author of 
" All Quiet Along the Potomac," 
131. 

Bego, John, 176. 

Behle, John, 177. 

Behr, Andrew, 177. 

Bell, Alexander, 177. 

Belle Isle, 118. 

Bell, Lewis, 177. 

Belle Plain, winter encampment of 
Army of the Potomac, 27 ; 194, 269, 
284. 

Bellevue Hospital, 211, 218. 

Bennett, Lewis, killed, 69; 177. 

Bennett, Stephen M., wounded, 63; 
177. 

Bennett, Thomas, wounded, 62; 177. 

Benchley, Hayden, 177. 

Bennington, 236. 

Benson, Henry, enrolled chaplain, 28 ; 
177. 

Benson, Horace R., died of smallpox, 
42; 89. 177. 

Benson, Robert P., wounded, 53; 177. 

Benzinger. Conrad, 178. 

Benzinger, Ferdinand, wounded, 53; 
178. 

Berg, H. Henry, 178. 

Bergman, Jacob, wounded, 11 ; 178. 

BerHn, 37, 221. 

Berndt, Matthias, killed, 52; 178. 

Berryville, 67, 70. 

Bever, George, 178. 

Bickford, Myron H., 178. 

Bidwell, Benjamin, pioneer ship- 
builder of Buffalo, 27, 93. 

Bidwell, Charles Howell, second lieu- 
tenant Company F, 3, 178, 217. 

Bidwell, Daniel Davidson, prominent 
military man of Buffalo, 1 ; field 
and staff officers. 3 ; record in Fox's 
" Three Hundred Fighting Regi- 
ments," 5, 6; ordered men to load 
muskets in Baltimore, 7; went 
home on leave of absence, 27 ; or- 
dered fire reserved at Marye's 
Heights, 31 ; three companies of 
49th Regiment missing, 32 ; com- 
mended and thanked the men, 32 ; 
read and explained Veteran's En- 
listment Act, 40. 41 ; resolutions of 
Buffalo Common Council, 41. 42; 
in command of Third Brigade, 43; 
on left of First Division, 44 ; re- 
pulsed Confederate attack, 45; offi- 



cial report of General Sedgwick, 
45 ; deployed regiment, 48 ; official 
reports of, 55-59 ; in command of 
attack upon Confederates at Fort 
Stevens, 64; conspicuous bravery, 
65 ; brevetted general, 67 ; his bri- 
gade cantured six guns at Fisher's 
Hill, 68; official report of. 70-73; 
his brigade held the Middletown 
pike, 74; killed, 75; brigade held 
the flank, 78; description of his 
death in official report of General 
Getty, 81 ; Mayor Fargo's commu- 
nication, 82 ; communication of 
Colonel Rogers, 83 ; resolutions of 
Buffalo Common Council relative 
to death of, 83, 84; inspiring 
veterans at annual reunions, 87; 
memorial services in Buffalo, 90; 
" A Child's Remembrance of the 
Funeral," by Miss Grace Carew 
Sheldon. 90; Larned's tribute to, 
91-99; indifference to self, 100-102; 
poems read at memorial services, 
102, 103 ; beloved by men, 125 : led 
Third Brigade out to battle at Fort 
Stevens, 129; order given to double 
quick at Marye's Heights, 136; in- 
quiry as to colonel, 142; Sergeant 
McKelvy's failure to salute General 
Smith, 144-145 ; Sergeant Mc- 
Kelvy's tribute to, 151-154; pre- 
sented colors, 155; exercises at 
Battleground Cemetery, 159, 178, 
184. 220. 

Bidwell Family, 100. 

Bidwell. John, participated in the 
Revolutionary War, 27. 

Bidwell, Mrs. Jane Harvev, 155. 

Big Bethel, 8, 16. 

Big Chestnut. 248. 

Bingenheimer, Philip, 178. 

Birch, Zebeler, 178. 

Blackman's Ford, 38. 

Blackman. Benjamin F.. 179. 

Black Rock, battle of. 27. 

Blakeslie. Henrv D.. 179. 

Bliss. William t., 179. 242. 

Blodgett. Alonzo F., 179. 

Bloodv Angle, battle at, 50-54, 56, 69, 
n. '"^1. 88, 146. 157. 

Bloomfield. William, 179. 

Blue Ridge. 34. 

Boast. John, killed. 45. 179. 

Bodemann, Christian, wounded, 53; 
179. 

Boehm, Henry, killed, 62; 89, 179. 

Boice, Richard, 179. 

Boland, George, 179. 

Bolivar Heights, 246. 

Bolster, Amos S., 179, 180. 



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Index 



Bolton, Charles, 180. 

Bonaman, Henry. 180. 

Bonta, Jacob, 180. 

Boone, William C, 180. 

Boonsboro. 178, 253, 288. 

Boorn, Charles N., wounded, 46; 180. 

Borchard, Edward, wounded, 46; 180. 

Borcherdt, Julius C, account of en- 
gagement at Marye's Heights, 30, 
31; men had no blankets, 39; exe- 
cution of two deserters, 41 ; noise 
enough for a heavy line of battle, 
48; forlorn hope charge, 49; on 
picket duty, 49 ; statement concern- 
ing Lieutenant White, 50, 51 ; came 
near being captured bv Confeder- 
ates, 60; i80. 

Bosco, Neale, 180. 

Boss, Henry .S., 180. 

Boughton, William DeLancey, 
wounded, 33; 180. 

Boulles, William E., killed, 11', 180.- • 

Boutwell. Daniel, 181. 

Bowen, Andrew J., 181, 187. 

Bowers, James, 181. 

Bowman, John, discharged for dis- 
ability, 28; 181. 

Boyce, Philip G., 181. 

Boyde, James A., second lieutenant 
Company I, 4; 181, 246, 259. 

Boyle, Barney, 181. 

Boyle, Harney H., 127, 128, 181. 

Bracknev, Jav, 181. 

Bradford, Ofiver, 181. 

Bragg, Lewis, 181. 

Brandy Station, followed foe to, 38; 
winter quarters, 40: 125, 134, 177, 
210, 211, 214, 232, 252, 259. 

Brann, Adam, wounded, 46; 181, 182. 

Brannon, Stephen, 182. 

Brant, Frederick, 182. 

Braj^ec, Andrew, first lieutenant Com- 
pany 11, 3; muster out, October 18, 
1864, 69; 125, 182, 203, 212. 

Brcndel, Joseph, 182. 

Brendell, Peter, 182. 

Brentvillc. 7^1 . 212. 

Bri<4ham, Risley H., 179, 182. 

Bristoe Station, 198, 268. 

Bristow, 38. 

Bristol, 273. 

Broad Street Hospital, 234. 

Brooker, John. 142, 182. 

Brooklyn. 187, 189, 232. 

Brooks, Isaac. 182. 

Brooks, Martin, 182. 

Brook's Station, 279. 

Brooks, Thomas, wounded, 53 : 182. 

Brown, .'\dam, 183. 

Brown, Adolph C, 183. 

Brown, George H., 183. 



Brown, James, 183. 

Brown, John, 183. 

Brown, Philip, 88, 183. 

Brown, Thomas, 183. 

Brown, Varnum, 183. 

Brown, William, 183. 

Brownell, Charles P., 183. 

Brownell. Leverette B., 183. 

Bruggeman, Frank, wounded, 65 ; 
183. 

Bruner, John, wounded, 46; 183. 

Brunier, Horace, 184. 

Bryant, William, 184. 

Buckelew, Francis, 184. 

Buckevestown, 66. 

Budd," Hiram, 184. 

Buffalo, Linion Defense Committee 
of, 1 : old and prominent citizens 
of, 2; where Companies B, D, E 
and F were recruited, 3 ; 6, 27, 69, 
82, 90, 91, 100, 102, 121, 151, 154, 
155, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 
176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 
184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 
192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 1^7, 198 199, 
200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 
208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 216, 
217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 
225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 
233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 
241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247. 248, 
249, 250. 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 
257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263. 264, 
265, 266, 267, 270, 271. 272, 212,, 274, 
275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 
283, 284, 285, 286. 287, 288, 289, 290, 
291, 292. 

Buffalo Common Council, resolutions 
for promotion of Colonel Bidwell, 
41, 42; resolutions relative to dcatti 
of General I^idwcll. 83, 84. 

Buford, General, fell in with van of 
Lee's army at Gettysburg, 35. 

Bugbee, George C, 184. 

Hugbee. James A., 184. 

l^ull Run, second battle of, 16, 124. 

Bull, William S.. second lieutenant 
Company E. 3. 184, 263, 285. 

Bullymore, William, actively at work, 
1 ; field and staff officers, 3 : 184. 

Bundschu, John, 184. 

Burckhardt, Julius, captured, 87 ; 184. 

Burgin, James, 184. 

Burgoyne. surrender of, 27. 

Burke, Dennis, 185. 

Burke, Thomas. 185. 

Burkittsville, 18. 

lUirksvillc Junction, 2. 

lUirnet. George W., 185. 

Burnham, Henry. 185. 



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297 



Burnside, Ambrose Everett, ap- 
pointed commander, 23 ; Freder- 
icksburg campaign, 25-28; in com- 
mand of Ninth Corps, 48. 

Burtch, Walter, 185. 

Burt, Mrs. Mary P., 155. 

Burton, Emory E., 185. 

Bush, Asa A., 185. 

Bush, Chandler B., 185. 

Bush, Eli C. 185. 

Bush, William, 185. 

Busher, Albert W., 185. 

Busti, 208. 

Butler, Benjamin F.. 48. 

Butterson, Frank, 185. 

Cady, Edwin A., wounded, 33 ; 185. 

Cadv, James, wounded and captured, 
53, 54; 185. 

Cain, Alexander, 184, 186. 

Calderwood, Hugh A., killed, 45 ; 89, 
186. 

Caldwell, Arthur L., 186. 

Callahan, Peter, 186. 

Calvin, James B., 186. 

Camden Street Hospital, 274. 

Campbell, James. 89, 186. 

Campbell. John W., 186. 

Camp Griffin, 119, 140, 141, 142, 179, 
183, 184, 185, 188, 190, 197, 201, 204, 
207, 208, 209, 217, 221, 225, 231, 234, 
235. 236, 238, 242, 245, 248, 251, 253, 
257, 265, 266, 267, 270, 274, 279, 283, 
286, 287, 288, 290. 

Camp Leslie, 7. 

Camp Lincoln, 12, 143, 151, 152, 154, 
230, 231. 233. 

Camp Winfield Scott, 198, 205, 265. 

Canfield, Albert G., 186. 

Canning, John, wounded, 46; 186. 

Caple, Robert, 186. 

Carley, James, 186. 

Carney, James, 186. 

Carpenter, Elial Foote, second lieu- 
tenant Company K, 4; 112th Regi- 
ment, 23; killed, 24; 187. 272. 

Carpenter, John, 187. 

Carpenter, Thomas R., 187. 

Carr, Thomas, 187. 

Carroll, 182. 

Carroll, James M., 187. 

Carroll, John, 187. 

Casey. Silas, president of examining 
board, 128. 

Carson, James H., 89, 187. 

Carson, Kit, presented mustang to 
General Davidson, 141. 

Carter, John, 187. 

Carver Hospital, 186, 257, 265. 

Carver, Stephen T., 187. 

Casey, John P., 187. 



Castile, 266. 

Cathcart, Rodney S., 187. 

Catlin, George R.. 187, 188. 

Cedar Creek, battle of, 74-81 ; Sheri- 
dan did not arrive at until after 
retreat of Union army had been 
stopped, 76; 4, 5, 6. 67. 69, 82, 85, 
87,97,98, 153, 154, 156, 176, 178, 180, 
197, 202, 203, 206, 213, 216, 220, 221, 
222, 223, 235, 243, 244, 246, 247, 249, 
255, 258, 259, 262, 263, 267, 269. 271, 
275, 283, 286, 287, 292. 

Cedar Mountain, 172. 

Cemetery Hill, 35. 

Centerville, 16, 197. 

Chain Bridge, 7. 121. 

Chamberlain, Spencer S., 188. 

Chambersburg, 34, 66. 

Chancellorsville, battle of, 29-33; 34, 
95, 187. 

Chantilly, battle of, 16, 38, 246. 

Chapin, Enoch, 88, 188. 

Chapin, Gilbert C, 188. 

Charles Citv Court House, 62. 

Charlestown, 5, 67, 96, 101, 192, 248, 
258, 259, 279. 

Charlotteville, 225. 

Chautauqua Lake, 87. 

Cheektowaga, 193. 

Chesapeake Hospital, 233. 

Chester, 189. 

Chester, Anson G., " The Dead Cap- 
tain," 147. 

Chester Hospital, 189. 

Chicago. 117. 

Chipperfield, John C, 188. 

Christler, George, 188. 

Chubbuck. Job W., 89. 188. 

Church, Henry W., 188, 287. 

Churchwell, Joseph C, wounded, 46; 
188 

Churchwell. Sylvester B., 188. 

City Point, 86, 117, 219, 240, 291. 

Cincinnati, 289. 

Claghorn. Austin, 188. 

Clapp, Charles E., 188. 

Clarence. 247, 290. 

Clark, Andrew, 189. 

Clark, Arby S., 189. 

Clark, Harvev, 189. 

Clark. John W., 189. 

Clark, Michael, wounded, 50; 189. 

Clearwater, Johnson, wounded, 46 ; 
189. 

Clemens, Charles L. H., 189. 

Cleveland, 118, 170. 

Cline, Benjamin, 189. 

Cloos, Nicholas, 189. 

Cloud's Mill, 7. 

Clunev. Thomas, second lieutenant 
Company A, 3; 88, 189. 204. 



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Index 



Clvmer, 157, 170, 175, 186, 198, 201, 
202, 205, 222, 233, 238, 239, 243, 245, 

247, 266, 269, 278, 279, 280. 
Coates, Richard, 189. 
Cobleskill. 259. 

Colden, 253. 

Cold Harbor, 5, 24, 59, 60, 61, 62, 
155, 177, 179, 219, 227, 236, 251, 275, 
276, 280. 

Cole, Albert, 190. 

Coleman, Alphonso T., 190. 

Collingborn, John, 190. 

Collingwood, Ralph, 190. 

Collins, William, 190. 

Collis, Albert, 190. 

Collis, Ashley, 190. 

Colt, Samuel B., 190. 

Columbia Hospital, 186, 220. 

Colvin, Luther. 190. 

Company A, recruited in Chautauqua 
county, 1 ; officers of, 3 ; record in 
Fox's " Three Hundred Fighting 
Regiments," 5; 22, 45, 46, 50, 53. 
54. 65, n, 86, 87, 88, 89, 163, 170, 
171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 
181, 182, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 
192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 

200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 209, 
211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 218, 219, 220, 

221, 222, 223, 225, 226. 227, 230, 231, 
232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237. 238, 239, 
240, 241. 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 

248. 249, 250, 251, 254, 257, 258, 259, 
261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 
269, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 281, 282, 
283, 284, 285. 286. 287, 288, 289, 292. 

Company B, recruited in Erie 
county, 1 : officers of, 3 ; record in 
Fox's " Three Hundred Fighting 
Regiments," 5; 22. IZ, 38, 45, 46, 
47, 50, 52, S3, 62, 65, 69, 11, 86, 88, 
89. 90, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174. 176, 
177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184. 
185, 188, 193, 195, 196, 197, 199, 200. 

201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 
211, 214, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220, 221, 

222, 223, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230. 
231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 
239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 
247, 248, 249. 250, 251, 254, 257, 258, 
259, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 
268, 269, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 281, 
282, 284, 285, 287, 288, 289, 290. 292. 

Company C. recruited in Westcliester 
county, 2; officers of, 3; record in 
Fox's " Three Hundred Fighting 
Regiments," 5: 45, 46. 50. 52. 53, 
54, 62. 69, n. 87, 88, 89. 105. 169, 
170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178. 
179, 181, 182, 183, 184. 185, 186, 187, 
188, 189, 192, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 



199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 205, 209, 
210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 
218, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224, 225. 226, 
227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 234, 236, 237, 
238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 
246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 254, 257. 

258, 259, 260, 261, 263. 264, 265, 268, 
269, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279, 
280, 281, 282, 283, 287, 289, 290, 291, 
292. 

Company D, recruited in Erie county, 
1 ; officers of, 3 ; record in Fox's 
" Three Hundred Fighting Regi- 
ments," 5; 33, yi. 45, 46, 47, 50, 51, 
52, 53. 54. 62, 65. 69, 11, 86, 87, 88, 
89, 169. 170. 171, 172, 176, 177, 178, 
180, 181, 183. 185. 186, 187. 188. 189, 
190, 191. 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 

198, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 
207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 
216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 

224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 
232, 233, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 
241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 
249, 250. 251, 252, 255, 256, 257, 258, 

259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267, 
268, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 
277, 278, 279, 280, 282, 284, 285, 286, 
287, 288, 290, 291. 292. 

Company E, recruited in Erie county, 
1 ; officers of, 3 ; record in Fox's 
" Three Hundred Fighting Regi- 
ments," 5 ; 22, 2,1, 50, 52, 53, 54, 65, 
69, 11, 86, 87. 88, 89, 105. 147, 169, 
171, 172. 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 
179, 180, 183, 184, 186. 187, 188, 189, 
190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 197, 198, 

199, 200, 201. 202. 203, 204. 205, 206, 
207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 
215, 216, 217 218, 221, 222, 223. 224. 

225, 226, 227, 228. 229, 230, 231, 232, 
234, 235, 236, 237, 239. 240. 241. 243, 
244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 250, 251, 252, 
253, 255, 256. 257. 25S. 259. 260, 262, 
263, 264, 265, 266. 267, 268, 269. 270, 
271, 272, 274, 275, 276. 277. 278, 279, 
280, 281, 282, 283, 285, 287. 288, 291^ 
291, 292. 

Company F, recruited in Erie county, 
1 ; officers of, 3 ; record in Fox's 
" Tliree Hundred Figliting Regi- 
ments," 5 ; 45, 46, 50, 52, 53, 54, 89, 
171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179. 181, 
182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190, 191, 
192, 193, 194. 195. 196. 197. 199. 201, 
202, 203, 204. 205. 207. 208. 209. 210, 
211. 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 
219, 221, 224, 226, 230, 233, 234, 236, 
238 239, 240, 241, 242, 244, 245, 246, 
247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 258, 260, 261, 



Index 



299 



265, 266, 267, 270, 271, 272, 274, 280. 
281, 283, 284, 286, 287, 289, 290. 
Company G, recruited in Chautauqua 
county, 1 ; officers of, 3 ; record in 
Fox's " Three Hundred Fighting 
Regiments," 5; 18, 22. 23, 27, 33, 
45, 46, 50, 52, 54, 65, 11, 88, 89, 90, 
119, 137, 147, 163, 170, 171, 172, 173, 
174, 175, 177, 178, 181, 183, 185. 186, 
188, 190, 191, 192, 193, 195, 197. 198, 

199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 
208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216. 
217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 224, 225, 227, 
229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236. 
237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 245, 
246, 247, 248. 249, 250. 253, 254, 256. 
257, 258, 259, 260. 262, 263, 264, 266, 

269, 271, 272. 21 2>, 21 A, 276, 277, 278, 
279, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 
288, 289, 292. 

Company H, recruited in Niagara 
county, 1 ; officers of, 3 ; record in 
Fox's " Three Hundred Fighting 
Regiments,'' 5 ; 22, Zi, 38, 41, 45, 47, 
53,88,89, 120, 172, 173, 174, 175, 178, 

179, 180, 181, 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 

188, 190, 191, 194, 199, 200, 201. 204, 
205, 206, 207. 208, 210, 211, 212, 215, 

216, 217, 222, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230, 
232. 233. 235, 237, 240, 242, 243, 245, 

246, 247, 250, 251, 252. 253. 254, 
255, 259, 261, 263, 266, 267, 268, 269, 

270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 
279. 281, 283, 285, 288, 291, 292. 

Company I, recruited in Chautauqua 
county, 1 ; officers of, 4 ; record in 
Fox's " Three Hundred Fighting 
Regiments," 5 ; 22, ZZ, 2,7, 45, 46, 47. 
50, 52, 53, 54, 65, 17, 86, 88, 89, 90, 
169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 176, 177, 179, 

180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 

189, 191, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197, 199. 

200, 203, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 211, 

217, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 

227, 228, 229. 230. 231, 232, 233, 235, 
236, 237, 238, 240, 241, 242, 243, 246. 

247, 248. 250, 252, 254, 257, 258, 259, 
260, 261. 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 270, 

271, 273, 274, 276. 278, 279, 281, 282, 
283. 284, 285, 291, 292. 

Company K, recruited in Chautau- 
qua county, 1 ; officers of, 4; record 
in Fox's " Three Hundred Fight- 
ing Regiments," 5; 23. ZZ, Z7, 38, 
42, 45, 46, 47, 50, 52, 53, 65, 69. 88, 
89, 90, 170, 174, 175, 177, 178. 180, 

181, 182, 185, 187, 190, 192, 197, 198, 
200, 201, 205, 206, 207, 209. 212, 213, 
214, 215, 216, 218. 220, 221, 224, 225, 

228, 229, 231, 233, 234, 235, 238, 240, 
241, 244, 245, 249, 250, 252, 255, 256, 



257, 258, 260, 261, 263, 266, 267, 268, 
270, 272, 273. 276. 277, 278. 280, 282, 
283, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292. 

Compton, 142. 

Concord. 211, 276. 

Conewango, 250. 

Conger, Jonas F., captured, 54 ; 190. 

Conklin, Henry M., 190. 

Conley, Hiram L.. 190. 

Conlev. WilHam W.. captured, 53; 
190. 191. 

Connors, John, 191. 

Conradt, Simon, 191. 

Conroe, James M., 191. 

Cook. James, 191. 

Cook, Walter S., 191. 

Cook. William, killed, 52; 191. 

Cooper. Arthur, 191. 

Cooney. Patrick, captured, 55 ; 191. 

Corbit, Louis, 191. 

Corby, Bernard, wounded, 46; 191. 

Corr, James, 191. 

Corry, 88. 159. 

Cottle, Philip S., first lieutenant 
Company A, 3; 189, 191, 192. 

Counradt, James E., killed, 45 ; 191. 

Counradt, Joseph, wounded, 46; 192. 

Courtney, James H., 192. 

Cousland, Joseph, wounded, 46 ; 192. 

Covel, Junior, Cyrus, 88, 192. 

Cowan, William H.. 192. 

Cowden, George, 192. 

Cowden. Milton J., 192. 

Cowden, Robert J., captured, 65 ; 192. 

Cowen, George A., 192. 

Cowles, Daniel F., 193. 

Craft, Charles, 193. 

Craine, Desmond, captured, S3; 193. 

Crampton's Gap, 19. 

Crampton's Pass, 6. 

Crandall. Alonzo J., 193. 

Crawford, William. 193. 

Creed, Cornelius, 193. 

Cregger, James, 193. 

Crissey, Sardis L.. 193. 

Crissey, Wilson H., 193. 

Critchel, William, 193. 

Cronyn, Charles D. H., 193. 

Crook, George, in command of 
Eighth Corps, 67. 

Cross, George W., 193. 

Crouch. Leon, 193. 

Culpepper, 104, 241. 285. 

Culpepper National Cemetery, 89. 

Gulp's Hill, 35. 

Culver, George W., 89, 194. 

Cunningham, Joseph, 194. 

Curran, Thomas, 194. 

Cutler. John R., 194. 

Cypress National Cemetery, 89. 



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Daniel, Daniel, 194. 

Danville, 85. 

Darby, John, 194. 

Darragan, Richard, 194. 

Dart, Jonathan. 194. 

Daugherty, Patrick, 194. 

Dauton, John, 194. 

Davidson, John Wynn, 8, 9, 12, 140, 

141. 
Davidson, Mrs. Sarah, 155. 
David's Island, 275. 
Davis, Augustus, 194. 
Davis, Henry, 194. 
Davis, Theophilus T., 194. 
Dawson, Hamer, wounded, 53 ; 195. 
Dav, Charles, 195. 
Dayton, Gilbert, 195. 
Dayton, Henry, killed, 52; 195. 
Dayton, Willett, 195. 
DeFort, Stephen Morris, 195. 
Denmark, Amenzo, killed, 45 ; 89, 

195. 
Denton, William, 195. 
DePlaa, Bastin. 195. 
Dette, Theodore J., 195. 
Devering, Peter, 195 
Devine, Charles, 195. 
Devine, James F., wounded, 46 ; 195. 
Devit, Cornelius, 196. 
Devlin, Daniel, 196. 
Dewey, Orville S., 196, 199. 
Dibble, Alvin H., 196. 
Dickinson, Raselas, 4, 196, 219. 
Dietz, George, 196. 
Dietzel, Benjamin, 196. 
Dill, John P.. 196. 
Disbrow, Harrison, 196, 213. 
Dittmier, Christopher G. J., 196. 
Donnelly, Thomas, 196. 
Donoghey, James, 197. 
Doolittle, Ezra, 197. 
Doolittle, William, wounded, 50; 

197. 
Dorr, Junior, Peter, 197. 
Dorr, Senior, Peter, 197. 
Doty, Howard B., wounded, 11; 197. 
Doubleday, Francis M., 197. 
Doubleday's Division, 20. 
Doud, William, 197. 
Dougherty, John, captured, 54; 197. 
Downes, William H., 88, 197. 
Doyle, John, 197. 
Doyle, Michael, 197. 
Drainesville, 6, 66. 
Drake, Jeremiah Clinton, 3, 23, 124, 

197, 279. 
Drew, George W., 198. 
Drewry's Bluff, battle of, 24. 
Driscoll. Michael, 198. 
Duck, Simon, 198. 
Duffy, James, 198. 



Dumfries, 227. 

Duncan, Julius, 198. 

Dunker Church, 21, 22, 145. 

Dunkirk, 193, 225. 

Dunley, Thomas, 198. 

Durshordwe, Frederick, 198. 

Durst, Augustus I., killed, 33; 198. 

Duryee, Eugene, 198. 

Dutchbone, James, 198. 

Dutton, Henry A., 198. 

Dutton, Ira K., wounded, 46; 137, 

138, 198. 
Dutton, Jonathan R., killed, 22; 90, 

198. 
Dyer, David, 198. 

Early, Jubal Anderson, held works, 
38 ; sent against Washington, 63 ; 
battle of Fort Stevens, 65 ; raid 
into Pennsylvania, 66 ; batteries on 
Fisher's Hill, 67; battle of Win- 
chester, 68; reinforced, 69; battle 
of Cedar Creek, 74-77; over- 
whelmed Hunter and Sigel, 96 ; 
surprised Union army, 97; drove 
Union army to Middletown, 98 ; 
successful raid, 129. 

Eastman, Marvin J., 199. 

Eaton, Joel H., 199. 

Eaton, Ortus C, 199. 

Ebenezer Hospital, 265, 272. 

Ebert, Michael, 199. 

Eckert, Henry, 199. 

Eden, 172. 

Edwards, William, 199. 

Edward's Ferry, 34. 

Eighth Artillery, 185, 238. 242, 274. 

Eighth Corps, 67, 68, 69, 74, 97. 

Eighteenth Corps, 57, 58, 62, 97, 227. 

Eighteenth Infantry, 235, 258, 263. 

Eighth Georgia Regiment, 13. 

Eighty-third Pennsylvania Regiment, 
282 

Einsfield, John P., 199. 

Elba, 185, 199, 261. 

Elder, John, 199. 

Eleventh Corps, 29, 35. 

Elkins, William A., 199. 

Ellicott, 212, 246, 271, 272, 280, 282, 
286. 

Ellery, 175, 236. 

Ellis, William, second lieutenant 
Company E, 3 ; wounded at Spott- 
sylvania Court House, 4; record 
in Fox's " Three Hundred Fight- 
ing Regiment," 6; 53. 104, 105, 
107, 182. 186, 199, 289. 

Ellis, William, 199. 

Ellord, Dennis, 199. 

Ellsworth, George, 200. 

Ely, Clark, wounded, 22 ; 200. 

Elmira, 2, Zl, 226, 237, 268, 274, 279, 
281. 



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301 



Emory, William Hemsley, in com- 
mand of Nineteenth Corps, 67 ; re- 
stored order, 76. 

Emory Hospital, 216. 

Episcopal Hospital, 228. 

Euscher, August, wounded, 69; 200. 

Evans, David M., 200. 

Evans, Junior, John, 200. 

Evans, Samuel, 200. 

Everett, Calvin D., 200. 

Everhart, John, 200. 

Every, Charles C, 200. 

Ewell, Richard Stoddert, attacked 
Union right at Gettysburg, 36; 
movement against Union right 
wing, 44; hastened to Spottsylva^ 
nia Court House, 48. 

Fairfax Court House, 7, 16, 179, 

192, 200, 227, 238, 244, 279. 
Fairfax Seminary Hospital, 184, 21:^, 

216, 221, 237, 269, 271, 281. 
Fairfield, 5, 36, 2>1 , 155, 173, 232. 
Fair Oaks, 11, 103. 
Falconer, Robert E., 200. 
Falk, Joseph, 201. 
Faling, Horace, 88, 201. 
Faller, Nicholas, 201. 
Falmouth, 25, 27, 224. 
Falmouth Heights, 140, 149. 
Farnham, Benjamin E., 201. 
Farr, Edson, wounded, 46; 201. 
Farrar, Amos, 201. 
Fees, Frederick, 201. 
Fegan, James, 201. 
Fenton, Reuben Eaton, 135. 
Ferguson, Abel C, 201. 
Ferren, Edmund, 201. 
Ferris, Charles, 201. 
Ferris, Edgar, 201. 
Ferry, Albert, captured, 53; died, 54; 

202. 
Ferry, Asahel, 202. 
Ferry, John L., 202. 
Fifth Corps, 25, 29, 38, 43, 47, 48. 
Fifth United States Artillery, 71, 262. 
Fifth Wisconsin Regiment, 55. 
Fifty-eighth Virginia Regiment, 30, 

31. 
Fillmore, Millard, commander of 

Union Continentals, 2. 
Finch, Josephus H., wounded, ^Z; 

202. 
First Corps, 25, 29, 35. 
First Lincoln Cavalry, 285 
First Louisiana Regiment, 12. 
First New York Battery, 175, 220, 

262, 272. 
Fischer, French W., wounded, 11; 

202, 243. 



Fischer, Gottlo C, 202. 

Fischer, John J., wounded, V ; 202. 

Fish, George A., 202. 

Fisher, Aaron C, wounded, 53 ; 202. 

Fisher, Henry, 203. 

Fisher's Hill, 67, 71, n, 97, 156, 264. 

Fitzgerald, Thomas, 203. 

Fitzpatrick, Michael, 203. 

Fletcher, Thomas, 203. 

Flowing Springs, 229, 231. 

Flummer, Martin, 203. 

Flynn, John, 203. 

Folen, William H. H., 203. 

Foley, Adam, wounded, 46; died, 47- 
203. 

Foley, John, wounded, 11 ; 203. 

Foley, William, 203. 

Follis, John, 203. 

Fond, William, 203. 

Forbes, Sherman, 204. 

Forestville, 4, 11, 170, 180, 183, 184, 
185, 189, 191, 192, 196, 199, 200, 209, 
210, 216, 219, 222, 223, 224, 225, 228, 
229, 231, 235. 237, 241, 242, 246. 248, 
252, 254, 258, 260, 263. 274. 276, 282, 
284, 291. 

Forge Bridge, 58, 62. 

Forster, Frederick, 53, 204. 

Fort Columbus. 264. 

Fort Davidson. 13. 

Fort Fisher, 85. 

Fort Hunter, 9. 

Fort De Russey, 64. 

Fort Ethan Allen, 7, 121. 

Fort Magruder, 10. 

Fort McHenrv, 226. 235, 281. 

Fort Porter, 100, 105, 171, 180, 187, 
190, 191, 199, 211, 214, 215, 219, 220, 
226, 229, 234, 239, 249, 251, 265, 266, 
271, 281, 284, 285, 287, 288, 289, 292. 

Fortress Monroe, 7, 15, 100, 118, 173 

176, 178, 184, 186, 201, 203, 209, 212, 
213, 229, 230. 233, 246, 254, 258, 259, 
261. 264, 265, 280, 282, 288. 

Fort Slocum, 64. 

Fort Stevens, 5, 6. 64. 65. 66. dl , 87, 
96. 101, 124. 129. 130, 155. 156. 157, 

177, 183. 192, 205. 207, 222. 223. 224 
232, 22,1. 249, 260, 263. 274. 

Fort Welch, 85. 

Forth-ninth Battalion, 2. 

Forty-ninth New York Volunteers, 
numbered, 2; suffered severe and 
unusual loss. 4; record in Fox's 
" Three Hundred Fighting Regi- 
ments." 5, 6; marched to Hampton 
Roads. 8; camp near Williams- 
burg. 9; passed thru Williams- 
burg, 10; building bridges, 11; 
broke camp, 13, 14; on lower 
ground, 15; crossed Cl.ickahominy 



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Swamp, 16 ; started Maryland 
campaign, 17; to reinforce Colonel 
Miles, 19; through ranks of, 20; 
advanced in charge, 21 ; casualties, 
22 ; recruits, 23 ; part of Left Grand 
Division, 25 ; protected removal of 
pontoon, 27 ; white crosses affixed 
to caps, 28; baseball, 29; battle of 
Marye's Heights, 30-33 ; casualties, 
37 ; much marching, 38, 39 ; out 
without arms, 40, 41 ; skirmishers, 
43, 44; casualties, 45^7; returned 
to position, 53 ; charged angle, 56 ; 
relieved, 57; in line of battle, 60; 
covered way, 61 ; casualties, 62 ; 
left of first line, 64; casualties, 65- 
69; on left, 70; skirmishers, 71; in 
front of Nineteenth Corps, 72; 
casualties, 11; held picket line, 85; 
casualties, 86; mustered out, 87; 
veterans buried in national ceme- 
teries, 88-90; regiment recruited, 
95 : stopped rout, 96 ; home-coming, 
100; on picket, 104; in camp, 119; 
Company H, 120-122 ; bullet-rid- 
dled flag, 124; encamped near 
Stonehouse Mountain, 133; Colo- 
nel Bidwell's order, 136; Company 
A, 142; left guide, 147; favored 
regiment, 151 ; expiration of three 
3'ear term, 155 ; regiment's flag, 
156; forty-one members of regi- 
ment fell at Spottsylvania Court 
House, 164. 

Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Regi- 
ment, 7. 

Forty-seventh New York Regiment, 
200. 

Forty-third New York Regiment, 23, 
56, 57, 64, 70, 71, 72, 73. 

Foster, Charles, 204. 

Foster, Franklin J., 196, 204, 231. 

Foster, John, 204. 

Fourteenth Cavalry, 239. 

Fourth Vermont Regiment, 48. 

Fourth Corps, 6. 

Fox, Elias, 204. 

Fox, Elmore, captured, 33 ; 204. 

Fox, John G., wounded, 53 ; 204. 

Fox, Mrs. Esther P., 155. 

Fraemiller, Philip, wounded, 69 ; 204. 

Fraenmiller, John, wounded, 50; 204. 

Framiller, Joseph, 205. 

Franke, Frederick, 205. 

Fredenburg, Charles, killed. 45; 205. 

Frcdenburg, Henry C. 205. 

Frederick. 18, 34, 66, 235. 253. 

Fredericksburg. 26, 27. 29. 34, 37, 95. 
124. 127. 1.35, 136. 139, 149. 155, 161, 
169, 172, 174, 185, 187, 194, 196, 198. 
201, 205, 215, 218, 223, 225, 228. 246, 



251, 256, 261, 275, 278, 280, 284. 288, 
291, 292. 

Fredericksburg National Cemetery, 
89. 

Fredonia, 3, 171, 172, 173, 175, 179, 
182, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194. 
197, 200, 202, 203, 204, 207, 208, 211, 
212, 213, 219, 220, 222, 225, 226, 227, 
231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 241, 248, 250, 
251, 252, 254, 255, 256, 258, 260, 261, 
262, 263, 268, 270, 276, 277, 278, 279, 
281, 282, 284, 285, 288, 289, 292. 

Freeman, Charles, captured, 33 ; 205. 

Freeman, Morley U., 89, 205. 

Freemont Rifles, 2. 

Frei, John, 205. 

French Creek, 220. 

French. Colonel. 75. 

French, Simon W., wounded, 33 ; 89, 
205. 

French, William Henry, 38, 39. 

Frier, Frederick, wounded, 65 ; 205. 

Fries. John, 205. 

Fuller, John, 205. 

Fuller. Ludophicus W., 206. 

Fuller, Perry W., 206. 

Funk. Charles, 206. 

Funke. Christopher, wounded, 46; 
206. 

Funkstown, 155, 237. 

Fuss, Mathias, 206. 

Gafney, Charles, 206. 

Gahrig, Philip, 206. 

Gainesville, 38. 261. 

Galen, 233, 278. 

Gardner. John C. capture^, 87 ; 206. 

Gardner, Thomas, 206. 

Gates, Oscar R., 206. 

Gattie, Joseph, 206. 

Gauchat, Emil, wounded, 50; 206, 
207. 

Geelan. Rarnett. wounded. 50; 207. 

Geisler. Joseph, wounded, 65 ; 207. 

Geller, Joseph, 207. 

General Hospital, 171. 

Genesee Falls, 216. 

Genther, Benedict, 207. 

Georgetown, 18, 175. 196. 208. 229, 
252. 

Gcrmanna, 39. 43, 55, 159, 160. 

German town, 170. 

Gerry, 260. 

Gettysburg, 6, 35. 36, 37, 95. 104, 149, 
155. 236. 256. 260. 284. 

Gettysburg National Cemetery, 89. 

Getty. George Washinuton, sent to 
hold ground, 43 ; temporarily in 
command of Sixth Corps, 75 ; offi- 
cial report of Battle of Cedar 
Creek. 78-81 ; pointed Sergeant 



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303 



McKelvy to the exact spot where 
General Bidwell was killed, 153, 
154. 

Gibbs, Walter, wounded, 50 ; 207. 

Gifford, Henry J., 88, 207. 

Gifford, N. C. Martin, 207. 

Giger, Lawrence, 207. 

Giggley, Rudolph, 89, 207. 

Gilbert, Mrs. Sarah D., 155. 

Gilbert, Simeon, 207. 

Gillett, William H., killed, 65; 89, 
207. 

Gilman, George W., 3, 208, 290. 

Glass, Joseph, 208. 

Glenn, William, 208 . 

Glossender, Thomas, 208. 

Goldschmidt, Julius, killed, 52; 208. 

Goodwin, Phineas S., 208. 

Golden Church, 104.^ 

Golding's Farm, 6, 11, 156. 

Gorham, Edward L., 208. 

Gorham, Jerry G., killed, 45 ; 208. 

Gorsline, Richard M., 89, 208. 

Gott, Charles, captured, 54; 208. 

Gourley, James A., wounded, 65 ; 
207. 

Graham, Peter, 208. 

Grand Island, 270. 

Grant, Lewis A., in command of Sec- 
ond Division, 79 ; attacked enemy, 
80. 

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, appointed 
commander, 42; failed to get by 
Lee's flank, 43 ; flank movement to 
Spottsylvania Court House, 47; 
strategy failed, 48 ; regretted last 
charge at Cold Harbor, 62; 
directed General Wright's return 
to Washington, 66; visited army in 
Shenandoah Valley, 67 ; broke 
thru Lee's line, 85. 

Grasshoff, John, 208. 

Graves, Edwin A., wounded, 22 ; 209. 

Graydon, Peter, 209. 

Greely, Charles W., captured, 33 ; 
209. 

Greene, Gilbert J., 3, 209, 289. 

Greene, Richard T., 209. 

Green, James, 209. 

Greenman, James, 209. 

Greenman, Richard, 119, 209. 

Greenwood, William, wounded, 46; 
209. 

Gregg, Robert W., 209. 

Griffin, Thomas, 209. 

Griggs, Robert E., 209. 

Grisley, John, killed, 50; 210. 

Griswold, James H., 210. 

Groce, Freeman, 2lO. 

Grover, Adoniram, 210. 

Grow, Nicholas, 210. 

20 



Gula, Andrew, killed, 22; 210. 
Guire, Michael, 210. 
Guire, Patrick, 210. 
Guiry, Michael, 210. 
Gurley House, 155. 
Guth, Philip, 210. 

Haas, John F., captured, 54; 210. 

Haase, Hermann, killed, 52, 53; 192, 
210, 211. 

Haase, Luther R., wounded, 50; 211. 

Hack. Nathan, 211. 

Haegran, George, 211. 

Haentges, John G., 211. 

Hagart, Adam. 211. 

Hagerstown, 36, 174, 180, 186, 215, 
217, 228, 256, 260, 263, 274, 292. 

Haight, Junior, John, 211. 

Haines, Erasmus W., 13, 211, 217. 

Hair, Lyman W., 211. 

Haisbach, Frederick, 211. 

Hale, Walter H., 89, 211. 

Haley, William, 211. 

Hall, Clement F., 211, 212. 

Hall, Henry D., 3, 180, 212. 

Hall, James A., 3, 212, 224. 

Hall, John, captured, 54; 212. 

Halloan, Peter, 212. 

Hall's Hill, 207. 

Halltown, Q. 

Halsey, Francis M., 212. 

Halsey, Harvey, 212. 

Hambleton, William T., 212. 

Hamburg, 212. 

Hammond Hospital, 185, 238. 

Hammond, William R., captured, 37; 
212. 

Hampton, 118, 198, 236. 

Hampton Roads, 8. 

Hanby, John, 212. 

Hanchett, Lewis L, captured, 53; 
212, 213. 

Hancock, Winfield Scott, commander 
of Second Corps, 35 ; consolidation 
of corps, 42; at Chancellorsville, 
43; on extreme right, 48; with- 
drew Second Corps, 50; captured 
position, 56. 

Handkin. Richard W., 213. 

Handy, Henry, wounded, 53 ; 213. 

Haney, Anthony, 213. 

Harden. John, 213. 

Harding, Henry D., wounded, 11 \ 89, 
213. 

Hardy, James, 213. 

Harewood Hospital, 211, 235, 243, 
262. 

Harmonv, 243, 256, 266. 

Harnety, William H.. 213. 

Harper's Ferry. 19, 67, 227. 

Harrington, Charles, 213. 



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Harrington, Nelson, 89, 213. 

Harrington, Newton, 213. 

Harris, Alonzo D., wounded, 46; 137, 

213. 
Harris, Gilbert D., killed, 52; 162, 

214. 
Harrisburg, 220, 236. 
Harrison's Landing, 15, 23, 118, 173, 

217, 239, 245, 248, 253, 267, 277. 
Harse, William, captured, 38; 214. 
Hart, Francis H., wounded, 50; 214. 
Hart Island, 261. 
Hart, Rollin, 214. 
Hart, Samuel, 214. 
Hartler, John, 214. 
Harvey, George, 214. 
Hassett, Quincy A., 214. 
Hatcher's Run, 85. 
Havens, John S., 214. 
Hayden, Charles H., 214. 
Hayden, William, 214. 
Hayes, George E., 214. 
Hayes, John, 214, 215. 
Haynes, Sylvester S., 89, 215. 
Hays, Horace H., 215. 
Hayes, Otis B., captured, 33; 126, 

127, 215. 
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 11. 
Hayes, William, 135. 
Hazeltine, Clark S., " The Methodist 
Minister who Owned Camp Griffin, 
Virginia, where the 49th New 
York Volunteers encamped during 
the Winter of 1861-2," 142, 215. 
Hazen, Marcellus E., wounded, 50- 

215. 
Heacock, Mrs. Abbey P., 155. 

Heacock, Reuben E., captain Com- 
pany E, 3 ; killed, 53 ; 105, 215, 290. 

Hearsberger, Frederick, 215. 

Hehr, Christian, 215. 

Heinz, Peter, killed, 45 ; 215. 

Heintz, Valentine, 215. 

Hellrigel, Peter, 215. 

Hemenger, Oramel, 216. 

Hemmingway, Albert, wounded, 46; 
216. 

Henderson, George, 216. 

Henderson, James, 216. 

Hennes, Adam, 216. 

Henry, John N., 216. 

Herlan, Jacob, 216. 

Herman, George, killed, 11; 89, 216. 

Herman, Jacob, wounded, 53, 17; 
216. 

Herman, William, 216. 

Hermon, Cornelius, 216. 

Herrick, George B., 217. 

Herrick, Mortimer, killed, 50; 217. 

Herrick, Nathan, 88, 217. 

Herring, William, 217. 



Herrington, Oliver, 217. 
Hessel, Charles E., 217. 
Heth, General, led van of Lee's army, 

35. 
Hetzel, William H., wounded, 46; 

217. 
Hickmott, Charles H., killed, 45 ; 89, 

182, 202, 217. 
Higgins, George, 217. 
Hildebrand, Charles F., wounded, 

50; 217. 
Hill, Charles, 217. 
Hill, George W., 89, 218. 
Hill, Henry S., 218. 
Hill, Henry U., 218. 
Hill, John, 218. 
Hilyer, Ezekial, 218. 
Hines, John B., 218. 
Hiss, Joseph, 218. 
Hobart, Alfred C, 218. 
Hodge, Miss Sarah, 155. 
Hodge, Mrs. William, 155. 
Hodges, George H., 218. 
Hodges, Lewis C, 218. 
Hodgson, John, 218. 
Hoffman, Christian, wounded, 46; 

218, 219. 
Hoffman, Frank, 219. 
Hofifman House Hospital, 22, 209. 
Hoffman, John, 219. 
Hoffman, John C, 219. 
Hogan, Hugh, wounded, 46; 219. 
Hohenstein, John, 219. 
Holch, Ludwig, 219. 
Holdridge, Ira, 219. 
Hollander, Chester, 219. 
Hollowav. Isaac, 1. 
Holt, Erastus D., first lieutenant 
Company I, 4; wounded, 53; killed, 
86; 219, 220, 223, 266, 267. 
Hooker, Joseph, in command of divi- 
sion, 9 ; commander of Center 
Grand Division, 25 ; commander of 
Army of the Potomac, 28 ; battle 
of Chancellorsville, 29; Sedgwick 
expected to meet, 31 ; followed 
Lee's army, 34. 
Hooker, Joseph J., 220. 
Hoover, Orlando, 220. 
Hopper, James 11., 220. 
Horgrave, George, 220. 
Horn, John L., 89. 220. 
Horton, John J., 220. 
Horton, Nathan S., captured, 54; 

220. 
Hotchkiss, David J., 89, 220. 
Houg, Anthony, wounded, 11 ; 220. 
Houghton, Uriah, 89, 220. 
Housam, John, 220. 
Howard, Charles, 220. 
Howard, Ervin, 220. 



Index 



305 



Howard, Henry W., wounded, 53; 

221. 
Howard, John, 221. 
Howard, Oliver Otis, selected Union 

position at Gettysburg, 35. 
Howard, Peter, 221. 
Howard, Timothy, wounded, 50, IT; 

221. 
Hoyt,' Charles N., 221. 
Hoyt, George P., captured, 54; 221. 
Hoyt, Edward J., 221. 
Hubbell, Daniel V. B., 221. 
Hubbers, Gerhardt, 221. 
Huber, Bernard, 221. 
Hudson, Junior, William S., 

wounded, 11 ; 221, 222, 226, 283. 
Hudson's Mills, 105, 106. 
Hughes, William, 222. 
Hughes, Thomas, 222. 
Hulburt, William H., 222. 
Hull, Marvin, 222. 
Hunt, Elisha W., 222. 
Hunting, Alva, 88, 222. 
Hunting, Lafayette, wounded, 53; 

222. 
Hurd", David, 222. 
Hurlburt, Hiram, 222. 
Husterd, James, 222. 
Hutchings, Henry E., 223. 
Hutchinson, Michael, 223. 
Hutchinson, Tliomas, 223. 
Hyattstown, 34. 
Hynes, Thomas, 223. 

Ihler, Joseph, wounded, 11 ; 223. 
Ingalsbe, Henry H., captured, 33; 

wounded, 53 ; 192, 223. 
Ingersoll, Alvah S., 223. 
Ingraham, William H., 223. 
Ingram, David, wounded, 65 ; 223. 
Invalid ^orps, 176. 
Ireton, Thomas, 223. 
Irwin, Colonel, 20. 

Jackson, Joseph B., 224. 

Jackson, William, 224. 

Jacob's Ford, 39. 

Jacobs, John, 224. 

Jamison, Isaac, 224. 

Jardine, Robert, 224. 

Jarvis Hospital, 248. 

Java, 194. 

Jamestown, 4, 42, 88, 90, 118, 154, 170, 
171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 181, 185, 
187, 189, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198, 200, 
201. 205, 206, 207, 209, 213, 214, 215, 
216, 218, 219, 220, 221, 224, 225, 228, 
229, 231, 233, 234, 238, 240, 241, 244, 
246, 250, 255, 256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 
262, 267, 270, 272, 273, 276, 277, 278, 



280, 2^2, 283, 286, 287, 288, 290, 291, 
292. 

Jefiferson, 18. 

Jenkins, John A., 224. 

Jenkins, William E., 224. 

Jessup, Daniel F., 224. 

Johnson, George, 224. 

Johnson, George Washington, 
wounded, 65 ; 3, 4, 6, 199, 220, 224, 

Johnson, Harrison, 224. 

Johnson, Henry, 225. 

Johnson, John T., wounded, 50; 225 

Johnson, Nathan, wounded, 33; cap- 
tured, 47; 225. 

Johnson, Perry, 225. 

Johnson, Peter, 225. 

Johnson, Robert H., Colonel Bid- 
well's orderly, 32. 

Johnson, Samuel, 225. 

Johnson, William, 225. 

Johnston, Joseph Eggleston, 13, 85. 

Johnstown, 18. 

Jones, David W., 225. 

Jones, Jacob H., 225. 

Jones, Marshall A., 225. 

Jones, Mrs. Miles, 155. 

Jones, Thaddeus W., 225. 

Jones, Thomas A., wounded, 46; 225, 
226. 

Jones. Wilber S., 226. 

Jones, William, 226. 

Jordan, Samuel S., 89, 226. 

Joy. John, 226. 

Judiciary Square Hospital, 33, 205. 

Judson, Mrs. Sarah M., 155. 

Justice, John H., 226. 

Kaiser. William J., IZ, 196, 226, 264. 

Karr, Adam, 226. 

Kaufman, Martin, 226. 

Keele, Andrew H., wounded, 53; 226. 

Keeley, James, 227. 

Keers, Matthew, captured, 54 ; 227. 

Kellett, Benjamin T., captured, 54; 

227. 
Kellev, George, 227. 
Kelhs John. 227. 
Kelly's Ford, 38. 

Kelly, Thomas J., wounded, 33 ; 227. 
Kendall. Charles A., 227. 
Keneally, John, 227. 
Keneley, Michael, 227. 
Kennedy, 90, 135, 140. 
Kennedy, Lester E., 227. 
Kennedy, Patrick, 227. 
Kenney, James, 227. 
Kerigan. Thomas, wounded, 50; 227, 

228. 
Kessler, Hermann, wounded, 50; 228. 
Kessler, Jacob, 228. 

Kester, William C, 228. 



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Kettle Run, 38. 

Kiantone, 282. 

Kibler, Peter, wounded, 22; 89, 228. 

Kigar, Richard, 228. 

Kimball, Henry, 228. 

Kimball, Oscar S., wounded, 50; 228. 

King, Edward, 228. 

King, Frank, 228. 

King, Frederick W., 228. 

King, George H., wounded, 46 ; 228. 

Kingsley, Henry H., wounded, 69; 

229. 
Kinnenson, Henry L., 229. 
Kinner, James, 229. 
Kirchenmeyer, Franz, 229. 
Kirshaw, William, 229. 
Kitchin, Wesley, 229. 
Klank, Peter, 229. 
Klein, Joseph, killed, 45 ; 229. 
Klein, William, 90, 229. 
Kline, John, 229. 
Knecktell, Jacob, 229. 
Knippel, George, 229. 
Knop, Carl, wounded and captured, 

47 ; 229. 
Knowlen, John, 230. 
Knowlton, Hiram, 230. 
Kochane, Jeremiah, 230. 
Koehler, Emil, 180, 230. 
Koning, Bernhard, 230. 
Korn, Emil, 230. 
Kraemer, George, 230. 
Kraig, Joseph, 230. 
Kris, James, 230. 
Krupp, Henry, 230. 
Krussa, John, 230. 
Kun, Herman, 230. 
Kurtzwart, George, 230. 

Lafferty, John, 231. 

Laird, Pliny P., wounded, 46, 69; 

231. 
Lamar, J. Q. A., wounded, 13. 
I^mb, David G., 231. 
Lamb, Russel, 231. 
Lamb, Stephen P., 231. 
Lambert, Junior, David, killed, 65 ; 

231, 259. 
Lamper, Charles, 231. 
Lancaster, 290. 
Landram, E. L., sold land for Bloody 

Angle Monument, 54, 89. 
Lands, John A., 231. 
Lane, Nathan W., 231. 
I^ne. William H., 231. 
Lang, George, 231. 
Lang, Thomas, 231. 
Lan«don, Arba B., 231. 
I>angenbach, David, 231. 
I.angley, 66. 
Langmyer, Frank, 232. 



Laona, 212. 

Larabee, Cyrus R., 232. 

Larabee, Ithiel S., 232. 

Earned, Henry S., 232. 

Earned, Josephus Nelson, tribute to 
General Bidwell, 91. 

Larwood, Lorenzo, 232. 

Larwood, Robert, 232. 

Larwood, Samuel, 232. 

Lawcock, Parnell, 232. 

Lawrence, Thomas, 232. 

Layer, Adam, 232. 

Lay, Mrs. Fannie A., 155. 

Layton, Charles, killed, 65 ; 232. 

Lebanon, 206, 275. 

LeCamp Hospital, 275. 

Lee, James, 232. 

Lee, Robert Edmund, in command of 
Confederate Army of Northern 
Virginia, 13 ; turn right of Army 
of the Potomac, 20; entrenched on 
Marye's Heights, 26 ; took offensive, 
29; invaded North, 34; van led by 
General Heth, 35 ; rear at Fair- 
field, 36 ; much marching and coun- 
termarching, 37; failure of Grant 
to flank, 43 ; thwarted Grant's 
strategy, 48; attempted flank move- 
ment at Bloody Angle, 50; stopping 
supplies, 59; sent General Early 
down Shenandoah Valle}-, 63 : 
Early to reinforce, 66 ; stretched 
out line, 85 ; no hope of escape, 86 ; 
fell back on the Rapidan, 104 ; forces 
along banks of Rapidan, 113; on 
way to front, 115; army busy, 136; 
went with native state, 141. 

Lee, Robert W., 233. 

Lee, Thomas, 233. 

Leland, Davton R., wounded and 
captured, 53, 54. 162, 233. 

Leesburg, 66, 174, 240. 

Lee's Mill, 8. 

Leet, Timothy A., 233. 

Lehman, Louis, 233. 

Leib, Jacob, 233. 

Lenox, Charles, 233. 

Lenox, Solomon, 233. 

Lentz, Simon Washington, 233. 

Leroy, 204. 

Leroy, Charles, captured, 54; 233. 

Leslie, Lewis J.. 233. 

Levan. William H.. 233. 

Leveck, Casper, 90, 234. 

Leveck, John. 234. 

Leveck, Jacob, 234. 

Levi, Felix, 234. 

Lewinsville, 7, 66, 156. 

Lewis, .A.ndrew D., 234. 

Lewis, Charles, captured, 87; 234. 

Lewis, Elias D., 234. 



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307 



Lewis, Elisha H., 234. 

Lewis, Milton, killed, 8; 89, 234. 

Lewis, William H., wounded, 46; 
234. 

Liberty Mills, 112. 

Lich. Philip, 89, 234. 

Liebetrut, Frederick A., 234. 

Lighthalt, Michael, killed, 11; 88, 
235. 

Limbark, Jacob, 235. 

Linberg, John, 235. 

Lincoln, Abraham, reviewed Sixth 
Corps, 23 ; order relieving Burn- 
side, Sumner and Franklin, 28; 
bestowed medal of honor upon Ser- 
geant McVeane, 31 ; at wharf to 
meet arrival of Sixth Corps, 64; 
eye witness to battle of Fort Stev- 
ens, 64, 65 ; brevetted Daniel Da- 
vidson Bidwell brigadier general, 
67; 96, 129, 130, 131, 164. 

Lincoln, Jarvie C, captured, 47; 235. 

Lindguist, John F., 235. 

Linkletter, William, 235. 

Linnenbitz, Charles, 89, 235. 

Little, George, 235. 

Little Falls, 246. 

Little Round Top, 35. 

Lockhart, John, 235. 

Lockport, 2, 3, 120, 170, 172, 173, 174, 
175, 176, 179, 180, 182, 184, 185, 186, 
187, 190, 191, 203, 205, 206, 216, 217, 
222, 223, 225, 226, 227, 230, 232, 233, 
234, 235, 240, 245, 250, 251, 252, 253, 
255, 262, 266, 269. 270, 272, 273, 275, 
278, 279, 281, 285, 289, 291. 

Lodes, William, 235. 

Long Beach, 142. 

Long Bridge, 17. 

Long, John, 235. 

Long, Joseph W., 235. 

Long, William H., 59, IZ. 

Longee, Norton B., 235. 

Lonson, Francis, 236. 

Los Angeles, 142. 

Lotz, William, 236. 

Louden, Amos M., 236. 

Louden, George, 236. 

Louden, James, 236. 

Louden Park Cemetery, 88. 

Louer, George F., 236. 

Loux, John, 236. 

Lovelett, George, 236. 

Lovelett, Henry, 236. 

Lovel Hospital, 194. 

Lower, Charles, 236. 

Luce, Joseph, wounded, Zl ; 236. 

Lunney, Thomas W., 236. 

Lusk, Henry N., 236. 

Lynch, William, 237. 

Lyon, James S., killed, 45 ; 89, 237. 



Macarthy, Thomas, 237. 

Mack, Dennv G., 237. 

Madden, Robert, 237. 

-Mahar, Thomas, 237. 

Mahoney, John, 237. 

Mahoney, Thomas, 237. 

Malady, Matthew, 237. 

Mallory, Zalmon E., 237. 

Malloy, Patrick, wounded, 65; 237. 

Malvern Hill, 6, 15, 95, 155. 

Manassas, 124. 

Manassas Junction, 38. 

Manchester, 34, 237, 248. 

Mansfield, 30. 

Market Street Hospital, 251. 

Mark, George, 237. 

Markham, Lewis H., 238. 

Marks, Augustus, 238. 

Marsh, Alonzo J., captain Company 
K, 4; 124, 142, 238, 272. 

Marsh, Henry N., 238. 

Marsh, Virgil, 238. 

Marston, Isaac, 238. 

Martinsburg, 67. 

Marve's Heights, 26. 29, 31, Zl , 136, 
155, 180, 184, 210, 219, 227, 236, 247, 
248. 256. 

Maschke, Charles, 238. 

Mather, Amos, 238. 

Mathews, Melvin L.. 238. 

Mathews, Andrew J., wounded, 53; 
238. 

Mathias. Jeremiah, 238. 

Maxwell. James H., 239. 

May, Calvin L., 239. 

May, Gustavus, 239. 

Mazienier, Louis, 239. 

McAndrew, John, 239. 

McBride, Alexander, 239. 

McCarthy, Florence. 239. 

McCarthy, John, 239. 

McCarthy, David, 239. 

McClellan, George Brinton, failed to 
take advantage, 13; friction with 
War Department. 15; without a 
command, 16 ; again in command 
of Army of Potomac, 17; super- 
seded by General Burnside, 23 : re- 
organizing armv, 95. 

McClellan Hospital, 202. 

McConnell, Arthur, 239. 

McConnell, John, 239. 

McCrea, John, 239. 

McCuen. John. 240. 

McCuen, Joseph, 240. 

McDermid, Neil, 240. 

McDonald, John, 240. 

McDonald. Louis, 240. 

McDonald, William E., 240. 

McFarlane. William, 89, 240. 

McGarry, John, 240. ) 



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McGinn, Patrick, captured, 53; 240. 
McGorey, James, killed, 52; 240. 
McGuire, George, 240. 
McGurk, Felix, 240. 
Mclntire, James, 240. 
Mclntyre, Joseph, 241. 
McKay, Lewis, 241. 
McKelvey, Samuel, 241. 
McKelvy, Alexander H., journal of, 
4; Fredericksburg campaign, 26; 
crossing Rappahannock river, 32; 
captured, Zl , 38; addresses at Get- 
tysburg and Spottsylvania Court 
Court House, 88; address at me- 
morial exercises, 90; report of 
his capture, 104-118; "A Typical 
Foraging Expedition," 133; "A 
Notable Artillery Shot," 139; "A 
Bad Half Hour with General 
'Baldy' Smith, 143; "Degrada- 
tion of an Officer for Cowardice," 
149; triljute to General Bidwell, 
151; address at dedication of 
Bloody Angle Monument, 164, 241. 
McKelvy, James, 241. 
McKinley, William, 11. 
McLain, John, 241. 
McLaughlin, Andrew, 241. 
McMahon, General, 62. 
McMahon, Timothy, 241. 
McMulkin, John, 241 
McNamara, Thomas, 241. 
McNeil, John, 241. 
McNerney, Thomas, 241, 242. 
McQue, Edward, 89, 242. 
McVeane, John P., took colors of 
58th Virginia Regiment, 31 ; killed 
45 ; 196, 242. 
Meade, George Gordon, appointed 
commander of Army of the Poto- 
mac, 34; battle of Gettysburg, 35, 
36; cautious commander, 37; Mine 
Run campaign, 40; 113. 
Mechanicville, 11, 156. 
Medina, 173, 174, 194, 201. 208, 210, 
232, 237, 243, 245, 253, 273, 274, 288. 
fileekings, William, 242. 
Mehrvadt, Charles, 242. 
Meissuer, Ernst, 242. 
Merchant, Milton J., 242. 
Meridian Hill, 7. 
Merrick. George, 242. 
Merrill, Robert, killed, 52; 242. 
Merrimac, 7. 
Merritt, Lafayette, 242. 
Mcrtz, John, 242. 
Messenger, Daniel, 242. 
Metz, George, 243. 
Mever, Augustus B., 243, 272. 
Middlctown, 74, 75, 76, 80, 81, 98. 
Miles, Colonel, 19. 



Miles, Franklin, 243. 

Miles, Thomas J., killed, 22; 90, 243. 

Mill Creek, 179. 

Mill Creek Hospital, 254, 265, 268. 

Miller, Albert C, wounded, 46; 137, 

243. 
Miller, Charles, 243. 
Miller, Freeman, wounded, 46; 243. 
^liller, Gilbert, 243. 
Miller, Henry, 243. 
Miller, Nelson, 244. 
Milliken, C. A., 73. 
Mina, 175, 204, 267, 269, 276. 
Minard, William E., 244. 
Miner, George R., 244. 
Mine Run, 6, 39. 40, 155. 
Moan, Charles, 244. 
Moeller. John, 244. 
Mohr, Martin, 244. 
Molin. Lawrence, wounded, 53 ; 244. 
Monahan, Peter, 244. 
Monitor, 7. 
Monocacy Bridge, 18. 
Monocacy Creek, 53, 199. 
Monroe, Richard, 244. 
Montgomery, George, killed, 11; 88, 

244. 
Moore, Augustus, wounded, 46; 244. 
Moore, Frank, 245. 
Moore, John, 245. 
Morgan, Edwin Dennison, 1, 2. 
Moriarity, Philip S., killed, 42; 89, 

245. 
Morris, Henry, 245. 
Morris, Samuel A., 245. 
^Morrison, William, 245. 
Moser, Frank, wounded, 46; 245. 
Moses, Augustus F., 245. 
Moses, R. H., 73. 
Mosier. Tames H.. 245. 

Moss, Charles H., captain Company 
H, 3; 120, 121, 122, 182, 245. 

Moss. Frank P., captured, 38; 246. 

Motch, Frank, 246. 

Mound City, 284, 286. 

Mount Pleasant Hospital, 207, 215, 
221. 280. 

Mouray, Sebastian, wounded. 11; 
246. 

Mower Hospital, 206. 

Moylan, Isaac, 246. 

Mueller, Jacob, killed, 45 ; 246. 

Mueller, John, 246. 

Mulkie. William, 88, 137, 138, 159, 
246. 

Mulkin, Erastus, wounded, 27; 246, 
247. 

Mullen, Richard, 246. 

Muller, Frederick, 246. 

Muller. John, 246. 



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309 



MuIIer, Rudolph, wounded, 46: 246 
247. 

Mundee, Charles, IZ. 
Muns, George T., 247. 
Murdock Spencer, 89, 247. 
Murphy, Charles A., 120, 121, 122 

247. 
Murphy, Patrick, killed, 50: 247 
Murphy, Philip J., 247. 
Murray, Dennis, 247. 
Mutersbaugh, D. M., 142, 143 
Myers, Frank, 247. 
Myers, John, 247. 
Mylacraine, John E., wounded, 46- 

247. 

Nabholz, Jacob, 247. 
Nagel, Charles, wounded, 11; 247 
Nash, Daniel W., 248. 
Navel, Charles, 248. 
Neeson, Edward, 248. 
Neill, Thomas H., in command of 
Third Brigade, 26; official report, 
30, 31 ; 149. 
Nelligan, Michael, 248. 
Nelson, Adelbert, 248. 
Nelson, Edward, 248. 
Nelson, John, 88, 248. 
Nelson, Patrick, 248. 
Neuhauser, George, 248. 
Neumann, Francis, wounded, 46 ; 248 
Neuroth, George, 248. 
Nevins, Madison J., 248. 
New Baltimore, 38, 191 
New Bridge, 281, 289. 
New Market, 224. 
Newport News, 8, 118, 206, 216, 280, 

287. 
Newport News Hospital, 238 
Newfane, 194, 262, 263, 266, 270, 278. 

286, 288. 
Newton, John, in command of First 

Corps, 35. 
Newton University Hospital, 2i&. 
Newstead, 196, 229. 
Newman, Arthur, wounded, 46- 89 

248. 
New York City, 2, 7. 119, 169. 170, 
174, 185, 211, 213, 221, 227, 228, 229 
230, 243, 260, 261, 268, 269. 
New York Citv Hospital, 242. 
Niagara, 169, 203, 275. 
Nicholas, John G., wounded, ^ ; 249. 
Nichols, William H., killed, 52; 249. 
Nineteenth Corps, 67, 68, 69, 74. 76. 

80. 
Ninth Corps, 25, 48, 50. 
Ninety-third Pennsylvania Regiment, 

80. 
Nitzschmann, Charles, wounded, SO 
249. 



Nolan, William J., captured, 54; 249 

Nolte, Henry, 249. 

Noon, James, wounded, 65 ; 249. 

Normanton, John, wounded. 77; 249 

Norris, John D., 249 

North Anna, 57, 59, 155. 

North Castle, 282. 

North Mountain, 68. 

Northrup, Gilbert, 249. 

Noyes, James H., 249. 

Nugent, James, wounded, 46; 249 

Nugent, Patrick, 250. 

Nutt, Seldon C, 250. 

Odell, Hiram, 250. 

Oder, Hugo. 250. 

O'Donnell, Edward, 250. 

O'Hara, James, 250. 

Old Cooper Shop, 7. 

Olds, Horace, 250. 

Olmstead, Daniel, 89, 250. 

O'Keefe, Captain, 79. 

One Hundred and Eighth New York 
Regiment, 176. 

One Hundred and Eighty-fifth In- 
fantry, 277. 

One Hundred and Eighty-seventh 
Infantry, 218, 230. 

One Hundred and Fiftieth New 
York Regiment, 234. 

One Hundred and Twelfth New 
York Regiment, 23, 24, 187, 197. 
275, 280. 

One Hundred and Twenty-second 
New York Regiment, 64, 70, 71. 72 
73. ' > > 

O'Neill. John, killed, SO; 250 
Opequon, 5, 69, 70, 156, 176, 177, 200 
264, 265. ' 

Oran, 275. 
Orange, 176. 

Orange Court House, 113, 160. 
O'Regan. Timothv, killed, 52- 250 
Orr, George S., 59, 73. 
Orr, Henry C. captured, 54 ; 250. 
Orr, Thomas, killed, 52; 250, 251. 
Ortobein, Gabriel, wounded, 50; 251. 
Ortwein. John, 251. 
Osborn, John, captured, 33. 251 
Oswego, 222, 255. 

Palmer, Charles, 251. 
Palmer, Charles H., captain Com- 
pany C, 3; 199, 251. 
Palmer, Danford M., 251. 
Palmer, Ferris, wounded, 46; 251. 
Palmeter, Francis, 251. 
Palmiter, John W., 251. 
Palmore, James W., 251 
Palmyra, 33, 169. 



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Panama, 191, 221, 231, 253, 271, 278, 
289. 

Park Barracks, 2, 174, 175, 226, 230, 
245, 271, 278. 

Parker, Cyrus W., 251. 

Parker, Franklin B., wounded, SO; 
252. 

Parnwell, Elijah, 252. 

Parnwell, Samuel, 89, 252. 

Partridge, George, killed, 52; 89, 252. 

Pasch, John, 252. 

Patrick's Brigade, 20. 

Patrick, William P., 252. 

Paul, John, 252. 

Payne, Richard, 252. 

Payne's Farm, 39. 

Payton, William, 252. 

Peach Orchard, 35. 

Pearce, Samuel W., wounded, 53; 
252. 

Pendergest, Thomas, 252. 

Peninsula, 6, 15. 

Peririe, Theodore, 253. 

Perrins, Peter, 253. 

Perry, Egbert, 253. 

Perry, Elias, 253. 

Perrv, Jefferson, 253. 

Petersburg, 5, 6, 58, 62, 81, 85, 86, 
117, 124, 129. 156, 171, 184, 202, 
206, 219, 225, 234, 259, 277, 282. 

Peters, Frederick, 253. 

Peterson, John, 253. 

Petersville, 186, 241. 

Pettel, Henry S., 253. 

Pharo, Stephen M., 253. 

Phelps, James Henry, 253. 

Phelps, Josiah Q., 253. 

Philadelphia. 7, 175, 182, 188, 189, 
191, 200, 202, 206, 211, 218, 225, 228, 
233, 234, 235, 251, 254, 256, 262, 266, 
270, 275, 276, 277, 280, 287. 

Philadelphia National Cemetery, 89. 

Pickett, General, Confederate charge 
at Gettysburg, 36. 

Pickett, John H., 88, 253. 

Pickett, Russell E., 254. 

Pierkel, Beno, 254. 

Pike, Harmon, 254. 

Pine Tree Meeting House, 160. 

Piper, Henry W., 254. 

Pixley, George W., 254. 

Plant, Anthonv, 254. 

Plant, George W., 254. 

Plattner, Albert A., wounded, 46; 
254. 

Plogsted, John F. E., captain Com- 
pany B, 3; killed, 45, 46; 1, 254, 
263. 

Ploss, Simeon H., 254. 

Poillon, Aaron B., 254. 



Point Lookout Hospital, 185, 199, 
238. 

Poland, 192, 231, 272, 288, 290. 

Pope, John, 16. 

Popp, Gottfried, 254. 

Portchester, 3, 169, 173. 177, 179, 185, 
186, 188, 195, 197, 201, 202, 203, 205, 
212, 214, 220, 221, 223, 224, 225, 227, 
228, 231, 236, 238, 239, 240, 242, 243, 
244, 245, 246, 251, 254, 258, 264, 268, 
273, 275, 276, 277, 280, 282, 287, 291. 

Port Columbus Hospital, 228. 

Porter, 213. 

Porter, Charles H., 254. 

Porter, Dolphus S., 255. 

Porter, Isaac N., 255. 

Porter, William, 255. 

Portsmouth, 246. 249. 

Portsmouth Grove, 194. 

Portsmouth Grove Hospital, 291. 

Potter, William Warren, field and 
staff officers, 3 ; 255. 

Potomac Creek Bridge, 33, 275. 

Powell. William. 255. 

Powers, John, 255. 

Pratt, Mrs. Sophia, 155. 

Pratt, Orlin, wounded, 46, 77 ; 255. 

Pratt, Samuel L., wounded and cap- 
tured. 50; 255. 

Pratt, Warren J., 255. 

Preble, James, 255. 

Preston, Francis, 256. 

Preston, George, 256. 

Preston, Reuben M., killed, 45; 203, 
256, 286. 

Price, Chauncey, 90, 256. 

Proesse, Gottlieb, 256. 

Proudfoot, John, wounded, 33, 37; 
256. 

Providence, 169, 226, 231. 

Puckett, William Raoull, 109, 110, 
111, 112. 

Pulford, Schuyler, 256. 

Purcell, Patrick, 256. 

Purdy, James D., captured, 33; 256. 

Pygus, Abram, 256. 

QuAiNTANCE, Addis J., woundcd, 46; 

256. 
Quatlander, Jacob, captured, 54; 257. 

Rapu, Charles C, 257. 
Raiber, Frederick, 257. 
Randolph, 185. 
Rathgeber, Jacob, 257. 
Rappahannock Station, 6, 38, 155. 
Read, Thomas Buchanan, 76. 
Ream's Station, 59, 179, 260. 
Reardon, Edward, 257. 
Reckard, Orman F., 257. 



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311 



Redman, James, 257. 
Redpath, Robert E., 257. 
Reed, George, 257. 
Reed, William, 257. 
Reiley, John, 257. 
Reinard, John F., killed, 45 ; 257. 
Relf, William E., wounded, 11; 258. 
Remington, Charles, 258. 
Remington, Frank, 258. 
" Reminiscences of May 18th ;" ar- 
ticle by Sumner A. Smith, 146-148. 
Rendine, Frederick, 258. 
Reynolds, George E., 258. 
Reynolds, John Fulton, killed, 35. 
Reynolds, Norman, wounded, 53; 

258. 
Rice, Elijah, 258. 
Rice, Henrv B., 258. 
Rich, Bene'dict, 258. 
Rich, George T., 258. 
Richmond, 9, 10, 13, 25, 43, 59, 63, 85, 

96, 100, 101, 113, 114, 115, 117, 151, 

192, 196. 
Richmond National Cemetery, 89. 
Rich, Silas G., 258. 
Richards, John H., killed, 50; 258, 

259. 
Richards, Lewis Cass, 243, 259. 
Richardson, James, 259. 
Richburg, Henrv, 259. 
Richmond, Bela' P., 259. 
Ricord Hospital, 228. 
Rider, Jacob, wounded, 53 ; 259. 
Rieck, August, 259. 
Rinker, Jacob, 259. 
Ritter, Frank T., wounded, 86; 259. 
Roach, Thomas W., wounded, 46 ; 

259. 
Roach, William E., 259, 260. 
Robbins, William, wounded, 65 ; 260. 
Roberts, Edward N., 260. 
Roberts, Junior, George, 260. 
Robertson's Tavern, 55. 
Robins, Dewitt C, 260. 
Robins, Martin, wounded, 50; 260. 
Robinson, Avery R., 260. 
Robinson, Fayette, 260. 
Robinson, Joseph C. 260. 
Robinson, William H., 260. 
Rochester, 176, 195, 201, 204, 212, 215, 

218, 224, 225. 257, 259. 
Rockville, 65. 
Rockwell, Daniel, 260. 
Roder, Charles, wounded, 33; 89, 261. 
Rodgers, Henry, 261. 
Rodgers, Joseph E., wounded, 50; 

261. 
Rodway, William J., 261. 
Roehm, Henry, 261. 
Rogers, Henry, wounded, 53; 261. 



Rogers, William, 261. 

Rogers, William Findlay, 82, 83, 105. 

Rogers, William B., 261. 

Romaine, Albert, 261. 

Rooney, Peter, 261. 

Rooney, William, 261. 

Rosch, John, 261. 

Rose, Abraham W., 261. 

Rose, Charles, 262. 

Rose, John Charles, 262. 

Ross, Frank, 262. 

Ross, John, 89, 262. 

Roth, Theodore, 262. 

Roulend, Charles, 262. 

Rounds, Asa, 262. 

Rowan, James, 262. 

Rowan, Martin W., 262. 

Rowlands, Robert, 262. 

Royalton, 220. 

Rovan, Christian, wounded, 11 ; 262. 

Ruble, William, killed, 65 ; 262. 

Rundschu, John, 262. 

Rush, William, wounded, 11; 262, 

263. 
Russell, David Allen, 153. 
Russell. Nathaniel J., 263. 
Russell, Junior. Solomon W., 217, 

263. 
Russell, Thomas, 263. 
Russert, Christian, wounded, 65 ; 263. 
Ryan, George, 263. 
Ryan, James, wounded, 69; 263. 
Ryan, John, 263. 

Sacker, John, 263. 

Sackett, Zaven J., 263. 

Sailor's Creek, 6, 86. 

Saint Paul, 141. 

Salmon, David, 263. 

Sampson, Lucius J., 264. 

Sanders, Charles, 264. 

Sargenbach, David, 264. 

Sarles, Benjamin D., 264. 

Sarles, Elisha B., wounded, 50; 264. 

Satterlee Hospital, 175, 201, 256. 

Sauerwein, Augustus W., 264. 

Savage Station. 14. 15, 155, 170, 222, 
276. 

Savres. Charles A., killed, 69; 264, 
285. 

Scelly, Thomas, 264. 

Schaefer, Lorenz, 264. 

Scheibenberger, John, 264. 

ScheifBe, Michael, 264. 

Schenck. Louis, 265. 

Schimmerhorn, Stephen Van Rens- 
selaer, 265. 

Schnindler, John, 265. 

Schlief, William. 265. 

Schmidt, Jacob, 265. 



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Schneider, Daniel, wounded, 53; 65, 
69, 165. 

Schneider. Henry, 265. 

Scholz, Philip. 265. 

Schoonoven, David, 265. 

Schram, Andrew, wounded, 46; 265. 

Schuller, John, 265. 

Schultz, Frederick, wounded, 50; 
265. 

Schultz, Frederick, 266. 

Schweckendick, August, 266. 

Scott, Charles, 266. 

Scott, Edward, 266. 

Scott, Henr^% 266. 

Scott, William H., 266. 

Scott, William W., 266. 

Searson. Nutten, 266. 

Second Corps, 25, 29, 35, 43, 48, 50, 
51, 61. 

Second Mounted Rifles, 190, 199, 266, 
271. 

Secord, David, 266. 

Sedgwick, John, in command of 
Sixth Corps, 28; battle of Marye's 
Heights, 29-31 ; at Gettysburg, 35 ; 
position too strong for assault, 
36; redoubt of the Rappahannock, 
38; ordered assault, 39; at Mine 
Run, 40; consolidation of corps, 
42; described Colonel Bidwell's 
braverv at The Wilderness, 45 ; 
killed, "48; 55. Ill, 113. 

See, Silas ^L, 89, 266. 

Seeley, Walter C, 222, 266. 

Seififert, Charles, wounded, IT; 266, 
267. 

Selkirk, George Holden, wounded, 
53: 1. 3, 5, 59. 87, 90, 100, 184. 189, 
207, 263, 267, 278. 

Selle, Alexander, wounded, 46; 267. 

Seminary Hospital, 229. 

Seneca Falls, 256. 

Seven Pines, 11. 

Seventh Maine Regiment, 29, 30, 55, 
57, 61, 64, 70. 72, 73. 

Seventh New York Cavalry, 263. 

Second North Carolina Cavalry, 114. 

Seventh Regiment United States 
colored troops, 38. 

Seventy-fourth New York Regi- 
ment, 83, 94. 

Seventy-seventh New York Regi- 
ment, 21, 29, 56, 57. 64, 70, 71, 73, 
75. 

Seventy-ninth New York Regiment, 
7. 

Severs, Aaron B., 267. 

Seyd, Alexander, 267. 

Seymour, Charles W., 267. 

Shaflfer, Caleb H., 267. 



Shaffer, Nicholas, 267. 

Shaffer, James W., wounded, 69; 
267. 

Sharpsburg, 89, 185, 207, 236, 272. 

Shaver, Charles, wounded, 53 ; 267, 
268. 

Shaw, Daniel, 268. 

Shaw, Henry A., 268. 

Shay, Thomas, 268. 

Shebel, John G., 268. 

Sheldon, 177, 245, 260. 

Sheldon, Miss Grace Carew, 90, 100. 

Sheldon, Harrison, 268. 

Shelley, William M., 268. 

Shenandoah Valley, 6, 63, 68, 96, 124, 
156. 

Shepperd, Elias, 268. 

Shipperd, Jeremiah, 89, 268. 

Sherman, 209, 218, 250. 

Sherman, Albert V., wounded, S3; 
268. 

Sherman, Charles W., 268. 

Sherman, Delos, 268, 269. 

Sherman, James M., wounded, 46; 
137, 269. 

Sherman, Levi W., 269. 

Sherman, Louis, 269. 

Sheridan, Philip Henry, in command 
of Middle Military Division, 67; 
destroyed private property in She- 
nandoah Valley, 68; absent from 
army, 74; arrived at Cedar Creek 
after retreat had stopped, 76; 
directed General Getty to repel at- 
tack, 79 ; army fell back to Win- 
chester, 85 ; assumed command, 
96 ; pursued enemy to Harrison- 
burg, 97; absent during attack, 98; 
arrival during day, 99. 

Sherwood, Benjamin, 269. 

Sherwood, John, 269. 

Shippee, Elijah H., killed, 52; 269. 

Short. William, wounded, 11 ; 269. 

Shum, Albert, 269. 

Shutts, Alonzo J., 269. 

Sickles, Daniel Edgar, commander of 
Third Corps, 35. 

Sidway, Mrs. Parnell St. John, 155. 

Siebenhuener. Carl, 269. 

Siiiwald, Charles, 269. 

Silsby, Jay, 269. 

Silsby, John D., wounded, 22; 270. 

Simmons, Adelbert P., 270. 

Simon, Peter, wounded, 46 ; 270. 

Simpson, Harry H., 270. 

Simpson, Jacob, 270. 

Simpson, James A., 270. 

Simpson, John, 270. 

Simpson, John D., 270. 

Sixteenth Cavalry, 232. 



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313 



Sixth Corps, 10, 20, 23, 25, 28, 29, 31, 
34, 35, 38, 39, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, SO, 
51, 59, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 
70, 74, 75, 85, 86, 96, 97, 113, 124, 
125, 129, 136, 143, 153, 154, 156, 157, 
158, 159. 

Sixth Corps Hospital, 274. 

Sixth United States Artillery, 214, 
224. 

Sixty-fifth New York Regiment, 94. 

Sixty-first Pennsylvania Regiment, 
57, 64, 71, 72. 

Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, 7. 

Skillman. Theodore, 270. 

Skinner, George, 270. 

Slack, William H.. 270. 

Slater, Bradford, wounded, 53; 270. 

Slater, John, 270. 

Slayton, Reuben H., 271. 

Slingerland, Edward A., 271. 

Slocum, Henry Warner, in com- 
mand of division, 19; commander 
of Twelfth Corps, 35 ; on extreme 
right, 36. 

Slough Hospital, 198. 

Smaldridge, James H., wounded, 46 ; 
271. 

Small, L. C, 59, 73. 

Smith. Albert, 271. 

Smith, Alexander. 271. 

Smith, Anthony, 271. 

Smith, Charles, 1st, wounded, 77 , 
271. 

Smith, Charles, 2nd, killed, 77; 89, 
271. 

Smith, Charles H., 271. 

Smith, Charles P., 271. 

Smith, Eugene P., 271. 

Smith, Henry, 271. 

Smith, Henry E., 89, 272. 

Smith, Hiram N., wounded, 46; 256, 
272. 

Smith, James, 272. 

Smith, James H., 272. 

Smith, John, 272. 

Smith, John P., wounded, 50; 272. 

Smith, Joseph, 272. 

Smith, Julius, wounded, 53, 77; 272 

Smith, Michael, 272. 

Smith, Michael W., 272, 273. 

Smith, Mrs. Beulah G., 155. 

Smith, Philander L., 273. 

Smith, Robert, 273. 

Smith, Robert P., 273. 

Smith, Sumner A., three companies 
nearly left behind, 31, 32; address, 
"Our Plag," 90; "Story of a 
Roast Pig," 136 ; " Reminiscences 
of May 18th," 146 ; 273. 

Smith, Thomas, 273. 



Smith, William Farrar, in command 
of division, 7; classmate of J. Q. 
A. Lamar, 13; hurried orders to 
Colonel Irwin, 20; transferred, 28; 
in command of Eighteenth Corps, 
62. 

Sneider, George, 273. 

Snicker's Gap, 66. 

SniflSn, James E., 273. 

Soldiers' Home National Cemetery, 
89._ 

Soldiers' Rest, 7. 

Soles, Benjamin, 273. 

Somerset. 174, 190, 197, 204, 211, 215, 
254, 283. 

Sorber, Hiram, wounded, 50; 273. 

Soule, Ebenezer, 273. 

Southard, John B., 273. 

South Mountain, 18, 34, 36, 95, 155, 
173. 

Southwick, William H. S., 273. 

Spaulding, Jerome, 273, 274. 

Spaulding, Thomas, wounded, 22; 
274. 

Speck, John, 274. 

Spencer, William, 274. 

Sperbech, Reuben, 274. 

Sperrv, Nehemiah, wounded, 65 ; 
137, 274. 

Spillicy, Andrew, 274. 

Spottsvlvania Court House, 4, 5, 6, 
47, 48. 53, 56, 69, 77, 88, 146, 155, 
157, 159, 160, 164, 171, 174, 176, 177. 
178, 179, 182, 190, 191, 193, 195, 197, 
199, 201, 202, 204, 208, 210, 211, 212 
213, 214, 215, 216, 219, 220, 221, 222, 
223, 226, 227, 233, 238, 240, 242, 244. 
245, 249, 250, 251, 252, 256, 257, 258, 
259, 261, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270. 
272, 273, 279, 282. 283, 284, 285, 289, 
291. 

Sprague, Abel, 274. 

Springstead, Hiram P., 274. 

Squires, Bela, 274. 

Stafford, Frank J., wounded, 65 : 274, 

Stafford Heights. 26. 

Stabler. Philip. 88. 274. 

Stamper, Frederick, 275. 

Stannard, Mrs. Walter W., 155. 

Stanton, Edwin M., 130, 131. 

Stanton Hospital, 171. 232, 274, 282. 

Stanton, Willard, 89, 275. 

Steele, Wesley B.. 89, 275. 

Stein, Gottlob. 275. 

Steinmetz, Gabriel, captured, 62 ; 88, 
275. 

Sterry, James H., 275. 

Stevens, Captain H., 58. 

Stevens, Edwin C, 275. 

Stevens, Isaac I., brigade comman- 
der, 7; killed. 16. 



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Index 



Stevens, Phineas. first lieutenant 

Company G, 3 ; 275, 279. 
Stevens. William, 275.^ 
Stevenson, Thomas, 275. 
Steward, Daniel, 275. 
Steward, John, wounded, 11 , 275. 
Stewart, Robert, 276. 
Stewart, Charles J., 276. 
Stewart, Henry, 276. 
Stewart, John, killed, 127, 128 ; 276. 
Still, Alfred, 276. 
Stillson, Lyman D., 276. 
Stockton, 173, 187, 188, 193, 199, 214, 

216, 237, 259, 273, 280, 290. 
Stoolfire, Irwin, 276. 
Stokes, John H., 276. 
Stone, Harmond E., 276. 
Stone, William H., 276. . 
Stonehouse, James, 276. 
Stonehouse Mountain, 104, 111, 133, 

286. 
" Story of a Roast Pig,"' article by 

Sumner A. Smith, 136-138. 
Story, Edmund, 276. 
Strang, William, 276. 
Strasburg, 67, 68, 71. 
Stratton, Joseph A., 276. 
Strayer, Levi, 277. 
Stringham, Adin C, 88, 277. 
Strub, Joseph, 277. 
Struight, Milton, 277. 
Stuber, Charles, 277. 
Stuber, Peter, 277. 
Sturdevant, Charles, 90, 277. 
Sugar Grove, 187. 
Sullivan, John, 277. 
Sullivan, Maurice P., wounded, 86; 

277. 
Sulphur Springs, 38, 104. 
Swallow, John T., 277. 
Sweeney, Edward, 277. 
Sweeney, James, 277. 
Sweeney, Patrick, 277. 
Sweet, Linford, 277. 278. 
Sweet, Orrin S., 278. 
Swick, Hugh M., 278. 
Swicker, George, 278. 
Sykes, George, commander of Fifth 

Corps, 35. 

Tarkart, Edgar E., 278. 

Tall, Richard, 278. 

Tallady, Thomas E., 278. 

Tanner, Reuben B., 278. 

Tarrytown, 239. 

Taylor, James, 278. 

Taylor, Terry, 278. 

Taylor, Peter A., second lieutenant 

Company D, 3 ; 278, 289. 
Taylor, Robert H., captured, 33; 278. 



Teller, John 3., 278. 

Tennallytown, 18, 66. 

Tenney, Newton F., wounded, 46 ; 
278. 

Terry, Seward Harmon, killed, 52; 
137, 138, 157, 162, 174, 279. 

Tewey, Timothy, 279. 

" The Dead Captain," poem by An- 
son G. Chester, 147, 148. 

" The Home-Coming of the 49th 
Regiment in 1865," article by Colo- 
nel George Holden Selkirk, 100- 
102. 

" The Methodist Minister who 
Owned Camp Griffin, Virginia, 
where the 49th New York Volun- 
teers encamped during the Winter 
of 1861-2," article by Sergeant 
Clark S. Hazeltine, 142,^ 143. 

" The Vanishing Troops," poem by 
John D. Wells, 103. 

Theis, John, 89, 279. 

Thielman, Leonard, 279. 

Third Division Hospital, 178. 

Third Corps, 25, 29. 35, 39, 104. 

Third Heavy Artillery, 44. 

Thirteenth New York Artillery. 235. 

Thirty-third Independent Battery, 
255. 

Thirty-third Infantrv. 169, 170, 171, 
172, 174. 176, 177, 180. 181, 182, 184, 
185. 186, 187, 189, 191. 194, 195, 196, 
197, 198. 199, 200, 201. 203, 204, 206, 
207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 214, 215, 
217. 218, 219, 220. 221, 222, 223, 224, 
225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233, 
234, 235, 237, 240, 241. 243, 247. 248, 
249, 250, 252, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 
259, 260, 261, 264, 265, 268, 271. 272, 
275, 277, 279, 281, 283, 284, 285, 286, 
289. 291. 292. 

Thirty-third New York Regiment, 
7, 21. 30. 

Thoenne, Jacob, 279. 

Thomas. George Henrv. commander 
of the Army of the Tennessee. 141 

Thomas, John, wounded, 53 ; 279. 

Thomas, Peter, 279. 

Thompson, George, 279. 

Thompson. Hiram P.. wounded, 33; 
" Personal Reminiscences of the 
War," 120; 41. 279. 280. 

Thompson, Justin G., second lieuten- 
ant Company G, 3; 279. 280. 

Thompson, Norman R.. wounded, 
_22, 46; address at Gettysburg 
Monument, 88 : presided at memo- 
rial exercises. 90; "Recollections 
of the War." 154; 137, 280. 

Thompson, Wayne, 280. 



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315 



Thompson, William H., 280. 

Thorn, Stephen C, killed, 62; 280. 

Thornton, Andrew, 280. 

Tice, Tohn, 280. 

Ticknor, Alroy A., 280. 

Tiffany, Wallace, captured, 50; 280. 

Tillinghast, Henry D., field and staff 

officers, 3; 1. 181, 280. 
Tilton Hospital, 287. 
Tindal, William, 215, 281. 
Tisdale, George M., 281. 
Todd, Hollis D., 281. 
Toland, John, 281. 
Tompkins, James H., 282. 
Torbet, Alfred Thomas Archimedes, 

67. 
Tosh, Alexander, captured, 87 ; 282. 
Totten, Stephen, 281. 
Toumey, Dennis, 282. 
Trent House Hospital, 271, 282. 
Trier, Henry, 281. 
Tritschler, Charles, 281. 
Trommeter, Henry, 281. 
Troutman, Peter, 281. 
Troy, 193. 

Truax, Charles I., wounded, 46; 281. 
Truax, Joseph H., 281. 
Tucker, Albert D., 281. 
Tucker, Darius, 281. 
Turk, Rice, 282. 
Turner, Henry, 282. 
Turner, James, wounded, 86; 282. 
Turner, John, 282. 
Turner, Myron, wounded, 46 ; 282. 
Turner. Orton, 282. 
Turner's Lane Hospital, 275. 
Twelfth Corps, 29, 35, 36. 
Twelfth New York Battery, 184. 
Twelfth New York Cavalry, 255. 
Twentieth New York Regiment, 29, 

289. 
Twentv-first New Jersey Regiment, 

149. 
Twentv-first New York Regiment, 

20, 169, 178. 196, 252. 
TwentA^-sixth Georgia Regiment, 72. 
Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry, 

226. 
Two Taverns, 35. 
Tyler, Mortimer Le Verne, killed, 52; 

162, 282. 
Tyler, William H., 282. 

Umberhum, Richard, 283. 
Union Defense Committee, 1. 
Union Hospital, 196. 
Union Hall Hospital, 188. 
United States Hospital, 170, 221. 
United States National Cemetery, 88, 
89. 



United States Signal Corps, 250. 
Upton, Colonel, forlorn hope charge, 

49. 
Urbanna, 18. 
Utica, 227, 240. 277. 
Uttley, Thomas, wounded, 46; 283. 

Vail, David W., 283. 

Valentine, Henry C, killed, 45 ; 89, 

223, 283. 
Van Baalin, Henry, 283. 
Van Brocklin, Edwin R., 283. 
Van Brunt, Albert, 283. 
Vanderhorst, Henry, captured, 53; 

88, 283. 
Vanderpool, James, wounded, 77; 

283. 
Van Gelder, Alfred, 283. 
Van Gelder, Henry M., 284. 
Van Volkenburg, Timothy, 284. 
Vaueh, Patrick J., 284. 
Vedder, Gustavus, wounded, 36; 32, 

284 
Vedder, William S., 284. 
Veith, Joseph, 284. 
Veteran Reserve Corps, 170, 180. 186, 

195, 196, 202. 204. 207. 209, 215, 216, 

218, 224, 230. 236, 237, 238, 242, 254, 

260, 264, 270, 271, 278, 279. 282, 

284, 286, 289, 290. 291, 292. 
Vickery, Edgar R., 284. 
Vigala, Bartholomew, wounded, 37; 

284. 
Vilbert, Anthony, 284. 
Vilmier, Michael, 284. 
Vinton, Francis L., in command of 

Third Briiyade, 23 ; wounded, 27. 
Vishniskki, Felix, 284. 
Virginia Central Railroad, 59. 
Voltze. George, wounded, 53 ; 284. 
Von Gavl, Frederic, first lieutenant 

Company B, 3; 211, 285. 
Voorhees, Weizner, killed, 45 : 285. 
Vosburg, Jacob, 285. 

Wadding, Philip, killed, 45; 285. 

Wagner, John, 90, 285. 

Wagner, Nicholas L., captured. 37; 

105. 117. 285. 
Wahlen, Jacob, 285. 
Wain, Charles. 285. 
Wait. Rufus R.. wounded. 53: 285. 
Waldron. James A., 226. 285. 
Walker, Daniel. 89. 
Walker. Elias. 285. 
Walker. George T., 285, 286. 
Walls. James, wounded. 46 ; 286. 
Walsh, William W., 286. 
Walters, John, 286. 
Walton, Edward W.. 286. 



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Index 



Ward, Frank, 286. 

Ward, Warren A., killed, 45; 286. 

Wark, John F., killed, 71 ; 89, 286. 

Warner, Christian H., 286. 

Warner, Enos, 286. 

Warner, Mrs. Katherine C, 155. 

Warner, Niles T., 286. 

Warren, 88, 90, 133, 139, 143, 149. 

Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, 40, 42, 
43, 48. 

Warren. Harlan P., 286. 

Warrenton, 38, 104, 192. 

Warrenton Junction, 38. 

Warsaw, 188, 203. 206, 213, 234, 237, 
251, 257, 258, 274. 

Washburn, Albert, 286. 

Washington, 6, 7, 15, 18. 37, 63, 68, 
74, 85, 87, 96, 100, 121, 122, 124, 128. 
129, 140, 146, 156, 157, 158, 159, 170, 
171. 172, 173. 174, 175. 176, 177, 180, 
181, 182, 184. 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 
191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 198, 200, 
201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 
209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 
217, 218, 219, 220, 221. 222, 223, 224, 
225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 
234. 235, 236. 237, 238. 239, 240. 243, 
244, 245, 246, 247. 249, 250, 251, 252, 
253, 254, 255, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 
262, 263, 264, 265, 266. 268, 269, 270, 
271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 
280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 
288, 290. 

Waterman, Hiram, wounded, 50; 
2S7 

Watkins, Nicholas. 287. 

Watson, John. 287. 

Watts Creek, 8, 156. 

Waynesboro. 36, 268, 277. 

Weaver. Henry H., 287. 

Weed. John E., 287. 

Weed, Mrs. Louisa C, 155. 

Weiler, Joseph, 287. 

Weinberg, Isaac, 287. 

Weingertner, Michael, wounded, 46 ; 
287. 

Weirner. Augustus, 287. 

Weiss, Julius A., 38, 287. 

Weissenberger, George, 287. 

Weissmantel. John Adam. 288. 

Welch, Redmond. 288. 

Wcldon Railroad, 85. 

Wellington, Levi, 288. 

Wellington, Warren C, 288. 

Wells. John D., " A Soldier's Grave," 
102 ; " The Vanishing Troops," 
103. 

Wells. William H., 288. 



Westfield, 2. 3, 4, 173. 174, 185, 186, 
190, 193, 224, 225, 229, 232, 235, 241, 
248, 253, 254, 264, 269, 275, 284, 291. 

West Philadelphia, 201. 

West Point, 13. 140. 

West Seneca, 216. 

West, William H., 288. 

Wheeler. Benjamin E., 288. 

Wheeler, Charles E., 288. 

Wheeler. William F., captain Com- 
pany D, 3 ; 267. 288. 

Whitcomb, Eugene, 288. 

White. Benajah B.. captured. 33; 
288 

White Hall Hospital, 191, 273. 

White House Landing, 10, 13, 14, 
270. 285. 

White. James. 288. 

White, John C, 288, 289. 

White, Joseph, 289. 

White Oak Church, 127, 169, 170, 173, 
175, 180, 183, 185, 187, 190, 193, 197, 
202, 203, 204, 214, 216, 220, 223, 228, 

230, 237, 241, 253. 255, 256, 260, 261, 
262, 274, 287. 289. 

White Oak Swamp, 5, 152, 156. 

White Plains. 252, 273. 

Whittier, C. A., 81. 

Widmer, Samuel, 289. 

Wieder, Joseph I.. 289. 

Wies. Louis, 289. 

Wiggins, William Theodore, second 
lieutenant Company C, 3; killed, 
45 ; 188. 222. 289. 

Wightman, Ira B.. 289. 

Wilbur, Solomon, 289. 

Wilcox, Alamando, 289. 

Wilcox, Alfred E.. wounded. 22; 289. 

Wilcox, Arnold D., 289. 

Wilcox, Daniel, killed, 52 ; 289. 

Wilcox, George. 290. 

Wilcox, Sevmour H., 290. 

Wilcox. Van. 290. 

Wilder. Francis M.. 290. 

Wilderness. 5. 6. 43. 47. 48. 69, 11, 
102, 124. 155. 170. 172, 173, 179, 180, 
182, 183, 186. 188. 189, 190. 191. 192. 
195. 197. 198. 201. 203. 204. 205. 206, 
207. 208. 209. 210, 211, 213, 215, 216, 
217. 219, 220, 221. 225. 226. 228, 229, 

231, 234, 235. 237. 242, 243, 244, 245, 
246. 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252. 254, 
255. 256. 257, 259, 260, 261, 264. 265, 
267. 269. 270, 271, 272. 279, 280, 281, 
282. 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 
290, 291, 292. 

Wilder, Joseph D„ 88. 290. 
Wilder, Walter D., 226, 290. 



Index 



317 



Wilken, Christopher, killed, 45; 290 

Wilhamsburg, 6, 9, 10, 16, 123 238 
240, 244. ' 

Williams, Charles, 290. 

Williams, Edwin C, 290 

Williams, John, 290. 

Williams, Leroy D., 290. 

Williams, Levi A., 291. 

Williamsport, 267. 

Williams, Robert J., 291. 

Williams, Sherman, "An Amusing 
Incident in Camp Life," 119- "A 
J'.'jbute to a Loyal Virginian," 

Williams, Theodore C, 89, 291. 
Williams, William H., wounded, S3- 
291. ' ' 

Wilmington, 225, 287 

Wilson, 271. 

Wilson, Charles R., wounded 46- 

291. 
Wilson, Daniel L., 291. 
Wilson, Robert, killed, 45; 291 
Wilson, William, 291. 
Winchester, 68, 71, 72, 1Z, 88, 97, 153 

183, 236, 254, 257, 263. 
Windmill Point Hospital, 269. 
Winegardner, James, 291. 
Winney, Henry, 291. 
Winters, Willison, 291. 
Witherell, Seymour B., 291. 
Witter, William Owen, captured, 47- 

292. 



'^onderlin, Franklin, wounded, 77; 

Wood, Edward M., wounded Z2>- 

292. ' 
Wood, George, 292. 

Woodard, Samuel J., wounded, 22; 

Woolsey, Elliott H., 292. 

Wright, Benjamin, 292. 

Wright, Horatio Gates, in command 
of Sixth Corps, 48; in fort, 64; 
directed, 65; stopped retreat of 
Union army at Cedar Creek, 76; 
resumed command of Sixth Cores 
79; 154. ^ ' 

Wright, William, 292. 

Wuerz, William, second lieutenant 
Company B, 3; 230, 292. 

Yates, 11, 271. 
York, 213, 261. 
Yorktown, 5, 8, 16, 81, 95, 118 124 

193, 198, 226, 229, 234, 241, 245 24d 

282, 286. 
Yorktown National Cemetery 89 
York. William, 292. 
Young, James, 292. 
Young's Mills. 8. 156. 187. 205. 

ZiMMER, John, 292. 
Zimmerman, William, 292. 



